HemeTEAM India: together everyone achieves more.

Background: Interprofessional team-based care has been known to aid in better patient-focused care and outcomes. However, the same concept in the space of bone marrow transplant (BMT) especially in this part of the world is currently elusive. This single-center experience from a BMT unit of India depicts the effectiveness of interdisciplinary care.

Treatment of Pediatric Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia in India as per modified BFM 95 protocol with Minimal Residual Disease monitoring.

Survival outcomes of Pediatric Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia (ALL) in the developing world have lagged. Here we report improved outcomes of pediatric ALL from India. We analyzed outcomes of children with ALL treated at our center between 2016 and 2021.

Incidence, Risk Factors, Characteristics, and Outcome of Chronic Graft Versus Host Disease in Children Undergoing Haploidentical Peripheral Blood Stem Cell Transplant With Post-transplant Cyclophosphamide.

Aim: Chronic graft versus host disease (cGVHD) is a major cause of morbidity postallogeneic peripheral blood stem cell transplant (PBSCT). There is paucity of literature describing incidence, risk factors, characteristics, and outcome of cGVHD in children undergoing haploidentical PBSCT with post-transplant cyclophosphamide (PTCy). Here, we describe our experience from our center regarding the same.

Fatal Severe Cytokine Release Syndrome Post-haploidentical Stem Cell Transplant With Post-transplant Cyclophosphamide in an Infant With Severe Combined Immunodeficiency and Disseminated Bacille Calmette-Guérin Infection.

Introduction: Severe Combined Immunodeficiency (SCID) is a primary immunodeficiency disorder characterized by absent or dysfunctional T lymphocytes, leading to defective cellular and humoral immunity requiring urgent hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT). We report a case of SCID with disseminated Bacille Calmette-Guérin (BCG) infection who developed cytokine release syndrome (CRS) and possible Immune reconstitution inflammatory syndrome (IRIS) after Haploidentical HSCT with post-transplant cyclophosphamide.

Methods: Data were retrospectively retrieved from electronic medical records.

Bacillus cereus infection in pediatric oncology patients: A case report and review of literature.

Introduction: Bacillus Cereus infection can be life-threatening in immunocompromised patients. We report here a case of Bacillus Cereus septicemia in a child with relapsed acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) and present review of literature.

Methods: We collected clinical, laboratory and outcome data of our patient with relapsed ALL and Bacillus Cereus infection.

Dengue virus transmission from donor to recipient during haploidentical stem cell transplantation.

Dengue fever is endemic in tropical and subtropical countries. Dengue virus transmission through hematopoietic stem cells is very rare and just two such cases have been reported previously. We report here only third case of dengue virus transmission in a 2-year-old child with thalassemia major who underwent hematopoietic stem cell transplant (HSCT) from a haploidentical related donor.