British Committee for Standards in Haematology guidelines for aplastic anaemia: single centre retrospective review finds no compelling evidence for the recommended higher platelet count threshold of 20 × 10⁹ /l

Matthew Yan¹, Yulia Lin^{1

2}, Jeannie Callum^{1

2}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.
² Department of Clinical Pathology, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, ON, Canada.

Comment

Matthew Yan et al. Br J Haematol. 2018 Jul.

. 2018 Jul;182(2):284-286.

doi: 10.1111/bjh.14767. Epub 2017 Jul 5.

Matthew Yan¹, Yulia Lin^{1

2}, Jeannie Callum^{1

2}

¹ Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.
² Department of Clinical Pathology, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, ON, Canada.

No abstract available

Keywords: antibody therapy; aplastic anaemia; myelodysplastic syndrome; platelet count; transfusion.

Comment in

British Committee for Standards in Haematology guidelines for aplastic anemia: Single centre retrospective review finds no compelling evidence for the recommended higher platelet count threshold of 20 × 10⁹ /L - RESPONSE to Yan et al.
Killick SB, Bown N, Cavenagh J, Dokal I, Foukaneli T, Hillmen P, Ireland R, Kulasekararaj A, Mufti G, Snowden JA, Samarasinghe S, Wood A, Marsh JCW; British Society for Standards in Haematology AA Guidelines Committee. Killick SB, et al. Br J Haematol. 2018 Jul;182(2):286-287. doi: 10.1111/bjh.14766. Epub 2017 May 23. Br J Haematol. 2018. PMID: 28542907 No abstract available.

Guidelines for the diagnosis and management of adult aplastic anaemia.
Killick SB, Bown N, Cavenagh J, Dokal I, Foukaneli T, Hill A, Hillmen P, Ireland R, Kulasekararaj A, Mufti G, Snowden JA, Samarasinghe S, Wood A, Marsh JC; British Society for Standards in Haematology. Killick SB, et al. Br J Haematol. 2016 Jan;172(2):187-207. doi: 10.1111/bjh.13853. Epub 2015 Nov 16. Br J Haematol. 2016. PMID: 26568159 No abstract available.