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Nov 15, 2022 6 tweets 3 min read Read on X
#MedTwitter #HemeBoards @HemOncFellows
🧵Summary of erythrocytes inclusion bodies:

1️⃣Howell-Jolly body
➡️composition: DNA
🔬associations: splenectomy, hyposplenism, megaloblastic anemia, hemolytic anemia, sickle cell disease Image
2️⃣Basophilic stippling
➡️composition: RNA
🔬associations: lead intoxication, thalassemia, abnormal heme synthesis Image
3️⃣Pappenheimer bodies
➡️composition: iron
🔬associations: splenectomy, hemolytic anemia, sideroblastic anemia, megaloblastic anemia, hemoglobinopathies Image
4️⃣Cabbot ring
➡️composition: remanent of mitosis spindle
🔬associations: MDS, megaloblastic anemia, AML Image
5️⃣Heinz body
➡️composition: unstable haemoglobin
🔬associations: unstable hemoglobin, G6PD deficiency and other erythrocytes enzyme deficiency, some hemoglobinopathies, alpha thalassemia Image
6️⃣Hemoglobin H
➡️composition: beta chain tetramers
🔬associations: a type of alpha thalassemia
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May 27
My top 7 #ASCO24 abstracts to watch for #mmsm

Will have more details on those once presented/published- those are initial thoughts that may evolve according to more data

There are more interesting data will highlight during the meeting

@ASCO

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#mmsm #ASCO24
1️⃣ IMROZ: Isa-VRd vs VRd i n transplant-ineligible NDMM pts

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✅ follow-up: 5 years

✅Median PFS Isa-VRd(NR, estimated 7.5 years!!) vs VRd(4.5 years)

🛑 Grade 5 TEAE: 2 times higher with Isa-VRd (11% vs 5.5%) meetings.asco.org/abstracts-pres…
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#mmsm #ASCO24
Thoughts on IMROZ

Very important data

✅median PFS: 7.5 yrs(estimated)
✅Grade IV AEs: higher though compare to:

MAIA: Dara-Rd: median F/U <5yrs (shorter median follow up),death related to AEs (10%) in Dara-Rd👇 Image
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#mmsm
How to counsel patients about Cilta Cel using the data from
CARTITUDE-4 and FDA ODAC meeting for earlier use

With data of Cilta cel and Ide cel, assuming having access to both for a given patient, I will personally chose Cilta cel (I explained this before)

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In the first ~6 months after we plan to give you Cilta-cel, you have one out of 12 (8%) chances of dying either of progressive disease or adverse event to Cilta cel, this will depend on the bridging therapy we will use and your response to it (planning is important to ⬇️risk)

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If you are able to get your Cilta cel, the risk of death in the first 3 months is 5% , most of those deaths (4%) were related to adverse events. Given the study was done in COVID era, some of the deaths were related to that infection so the risk maybe lower nowadays-esp USA

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GRIFFIN trial @TheLancetHaem #mmsm

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✅Phase II trial of Dara-RVd vs. RVd
✅Final analysis after all pts had completed at least 1 year of follow-up after end of study ttt, had died, or withdrew from study participation.

Some learning points

🧵 thelancet.com/journals/lanha…
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Primary endpoint of the study

➡️stringent complete response rate by end of post-HSCT consolidation
➡️Very important portion of the study 👇
➡️Assumption is 15% difference between Dara-RVd vs. RVd.

Note that statistical significance can be ascertained for 1ry endpoint Image
Did the study meet the 1ry endpoint?
sCR post transplant
Dara-RVd: 42%
RVd: 32%

Difference of 10% only

This means study didn't meet 1ry endpoint

Now the assumption for power calculation was 35% sCR in RVd group which was actually less in the study so this is not the reason. Image
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Aug 30, 2023
Mezigdomide plus Dexamethasone in Relapsed and Refractory Multiple Myeloma | @NEJM #mmsm

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Quick initial look

🧵 www-nejm-org.libproxy.uams.edu/doi/full/10.10…
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Mezigdomide was previously known as CC-92480

✅ modulator of E3 ubiquitin ligase complex containing cereblon
✅ binds to cereblon and subsequently induces proteasome-mediated degradation of certain transcription factors➡️ activation of T-cells Image
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🛑Plasmacytoma was 40% (extramedullary soft-tissue only and bone-based plasmacytomas with a measurable soft-tissue component)

✅weekly Dex 40 mg (for pts >=75 yrs 20 mg)
✅phase II dose is 1 mg daily for D1-21/28 days
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#mmsm
Given the approval of talquetamab and AEs specific for this agent, here I provide some counseling tips and maneuvers to help lessen special AEs

✅Dose: 0.8 mg/kg SC every 2 wks: my preferred dosing

✅About 3 out 4 pts had a response per FDA package insert (n=87 pts)

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#mmsm
🛑dysgeusia: unpleasant or altered taste sensation
🛑No Grade III/IV for this condition

G I: Altered taste but no change in diet
G II: Altered taste with change in diet (e.g., oral supplements); noxious or unpleasant taste; loss of taste

Absence of GIII/IV≠don't exist Image
#mmsm

Ageusia means complete loss of taste (18% per package insert)

How to treat?

Nothing definite, some things may help

✅Check zinc deficiency, can replace/supplement
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Check out our correspondence for the real world data on the use of ide cel #mmsm @JCO_ASCO @ASCO @UAMSMyeloma @uamscancer

Intent Matters: Real-World Applicability of ide-cel Usage in the United States

➡️ascopubs.org/doi/10.1200/JC…

Led by @rajshekharucms @columbiacancer

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🛑17 of 196 (~9%) of patients who did not proceed to CAR T-cell infusion because of either disease progression/death (n = 12) or manufacturing failure (n = 5) were excluded from the final efficacy analysis👇 Image
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