ASH 2009 meeting report—Top 10 clinically oriented abstracts in sickle cell disease

✍ Scribed by Carlo Brugnara

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 2010
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 414 KB
• Volume: 85
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0361-8609
• DOI: 10.1002/ajh.21636

✦ Synopsis

The 2009 American Society of Hematology annual meeting took place December 5-8, in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. Official sources indicate over 20,000 people attended the meeting and more than 4,000 scientific abstracts were presented. Among the latter, close to 100 were in the category of BCR-ABL1-negative myeloproliferative neoplasms (MPN), including polycythemia vera, essential thrombocythemia and primary myelofibrosis. Here, I summarize and discuss the top 10 MPN abstracts, which I believe contain information that is immediately relevant to clinical practice. All 10 abstracts are published in full in the November 20, 2009 issue of Blood (volume 114, No. 22) and are identified here by their abstract numbers.