OBJECTIVES To evaluate the yield and safety of transthoracic fine-needle aspiration (FNA) in the diagnosis of pulmonary disease in patients with hematologic malignancy. DESIGN Retrospective chart review. SETTING Tertiary-care medical center. PATIENTS Sixty-seven patients with a hematologic malignancy or after bone marrow transplantation (BMT) for a hematologic malignancy who underwent a t...

BACKGROUND Treatment with disease-modifying anti-rheumatic drugs (DMARDs) has raised concerns about the risk of malignancies in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) patients. However, the association between biologic DMARDs (bDMARDs) and malignancy in previous reports remains controversial. Therefore we aimed to estimate the incidence of malignancy in early RA patients and to evaluate the relative risk of...

Introduction Multiple myeloma is caused by abnormal proliferation of plasma cells that affects more commonly African Americans. It classically presents with hypercalcemia, renal failure, anemia, and lytic bone lesions. The aim of this article is to present an unusual case of a 63-year-old African-American female with multiple myeloma who presented with worsening right-sided eye swelling for the...

• Enterovirus D68 can infect adult patients with hematologic malignancy and HCT recipients and lead to severe respiratory disease. • Current diagnostic assays for enterovirus D68 are limited, and further studies on improved rapid diagnostic tools are needed. TheUnitedStatesCenters forDiseaseControl andPrevention reportedover 1000casesof severe respiratory disease in pediatric patients associate...

BACKGROUND Pyomyositis is typically caused by gram-positive bacteria, especially Staphylococcus aureus. Few cases of Escherichia coli pyomyositis have been reported, including only 1 involving a patient with a hematologic malignancy. METHODS The clinical microbiology database at The M. D. Anderson Cancer Center (Houston, TX) was reviewed for the period January 2003 through December 2007 to id...

OBJECTIVE To assess the frequency of hematologic malignancies at diagnosis and to determine the incidence and predictors of malignant transformation during follow-up in patients with polyneuropathy associated with monoclonal gammopathy. METHODS Potential predictors of malignant transformation from medical history, hematologic, neurologic, and laboratory examination performed each 6 months wer...