Aaron Logan, MD, PhD, MPhil
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Aaron Logan, MD, PhD, MPhil
@hemedoc
Professor, UCSF hematology/BMT. Translational researcher interested in leukemia, MDS, HLH, MRD, post-HCT relapse, GVHD, & immune recon. Photos: pyknosis (IG)
- Had my 1st alloHCT recipient die from COVID-19 yesterday. Young but vulnerable from ongoing tx for relapsed AML. Got it from a family member at low risk for negative outcome...who got it from someone else at low risk. This is why we say #wearamask even if you’re healthy yourself.
- My greatest success story: 5.5yrs out from allo for prim refract monosomal karyo AML using TBI prep, treated >3yrs w pred/siro/ECP for sev-ext cGVHD, now 35wks pregnant with a medically assisted pregnancy using a donor oocyte!! And an absolute delight!❤️ (Posted with permission.)
- Replying to @SJMorrison_My thoughts exactly. He’s probably getting convalescent antibodies today and would get remdesivir/dex at earliest possible indication of progressive lower airway disease. His course will absolutely not be representative of what the public at large faces.
- Little known fact: part of the reason clinical trials are so expensive is to pay for all the SIGN HERE stickies.
- Academic medical centers are headed for a staffing crisis. Too many faculty are burned out, feel unsupported, & there are other options. I’m not going anywhere, but have heard about too many w imminent changes afoot to not be shook. And that’s just the docs. RNs are bailing too.
- Replying to @hemedoc and @SJMorrison_All of this assumes the diagnosis is real. I still hold onto *some* skepticism that this is anything more than wagging the dog to distract from the chaos accompanying the terminal weeks of his administration.
- Was texted this photo from the apheresis unit. Patient collecting PBMC for CAR-T production. This bag does not contain PBMC. Tell me the lab I ordered and guess the value. 😅
- Is this a first world approach to screening for COVID-19? Asking for 330 million friends.Bravo! South Korea 🇰🇷 has set up ‘phone booths’ that can test people for the coronavirus in just 7 minutes. The country has earned praise for its mass testing amid the Covid19 pandemic.
- I lost one of my favorite patients of all time today. :( Though much younger, she taught me so much. Some face their adversity w bravery I know I’d never muster... It both inspires and breaks me to bear witness to such struggles. None of what we do is easy. Some of it is harder.
- Replying to @DShadowgazerNot so fast. Spleens exist to satisfy hematologists — by recommending their removal. Appendices exist to give surgeons a starter procedure to practice — so they can grow up do the big ops, like laparoscopic splenectomies in patients with platelet counts in the single digits.
- When you get to have the one & only @RahulBanerjeeMD on service, it’s a gift. I told him he’s the boss this wk, and I’m here for moral support — he sent this pic. 😂 Very proud of Rahul and know he’s going to be a HUGE superstar @SeattleCCA when he starts his Asst Prof-ship soon!
