Happy Academic New Year from @HopkinsHeme! 🩸🥳🩸
Today we welcome @Hopkins_HemOnc graduate & physician-scientist #complementopathy phenom, Dr. Michael Cole, as a new faculty member of our #HemeDreamTeam!! We are so lucky to have such fabulous faculty.
Andersen JF et al, A bispecific inhibitor of complement and coagulation blocks activation in complementopathy models via a novel mechanism. Blood. 2023 PMID: 36947859.
thrombotic microangiopathies (TMAs: TTP, HUS, etc)
🩸dx TMA based on schistocytes & hemolytic anemia
🩸TMA has a broad ddx (not just TTP vs. non-TTP)
🩸PLASMIC score helps sort who needs plasma xchange
🩸complementopathy = new dimension of critical illness
emcrit.org/ibcc/tma/
Catastrophic Antiphospholipid Syndrome (CAPS) - fresh @iBookCC chapter
🧢 RARE CAUSE OF MULTI-ORGAN FAILURE
🧢 PERHAPS PRIMARILY A COMPLEMENTOPATHY?
🧢 KNOW THE RED FLAGS TO AVOID MISSING THE DIAGNOSIS 🚩
emcrit.org/ibcc/caps/
Dr. Joan Merrill on #COVID19 thrombosis: behaves like CAPS/complementopathy and there are anecdotal reports of successful treatment of the thrombosis with anticoagulation, eculizumab, plasma exchange. Her conclusions from the talk: @RheumNow