Neurology

Hematologic Malignancies

Questions discussed in this category

Does receiving IVIG confound the result of SPEP and/or UPEP?

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How do you evaluate a patient with MGUS and peripheral neuropathy?

Can you explain when would you consider light chain amyloidosis work up with fat pad biopsy?

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How do you time CSF analysis for suspected CNS lymphoma in patients who are on steroids?

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How do different inflammatory markers like CRP and ferritin contribute differently, if at all, to the monitoring of CART neurotoxicity?

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Is it necessary to prescribe a steroid taper after two weeks of high-dose prednisone (60 mg daily)?

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How do you manage IgM related peripheral neuropathy?

Do you utilize rituximab or any other specific management strategies?

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How would you approach grade 2 neurologic toxicity in a patient on daratumumab, dexamethasone, and lenalidomide for relapsed multiple myeloma?

Regimen currently 25 mg lenalidomide D1-21 of D28 day cycles, Daratumumab 16 mg/kg every 2 weeks.

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When patients develop headaches from luspatercept, do they tend to improve over time?

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Do you typically see peripheral neuropathy in patients with castleman syndrome?

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Do you recommend work up for POEMS and/or amyloidosis for IgM monoclonal gammopathies associated with neuropathy?

Can you expand on this by sharing exactly what this routine workup should include? What additional tests outside of evaluating for POEMS and amyloidos...

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Papers discussed in this category

Mayo Clin Proc,

Monoclonal Gammopathy-Associated Peripheral Neuropathy: Diagnosis and Management.

Neurol Sci, 2021 Sep 16

Paraproteinemia and neuropathy.

Pediatr Blood Cancer, 2021 Oct

Idiopathic multicentric Castleman disease with TAFRO clinical subtype responsive to IL-6/JAK inhibition: A pediatric case series.

Journal of the Endocrine Society, 2022 Dec 02

Perioperative Evaluation and Management of Patients on Glucocorticoids.

Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland), 2021 Apr 20

Glucocorticoid Withdrawal-An Overview on When and How to Diagnose Adrenal Insufficiency in Clinical Practice.

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