Report from the 2024 American Society of Hematology Annual Meeting — Benign Hematology

NEJM Group was on hand to cover the 2024 American Society of Hematology (ASH) annual meeting, held December 7 to 10 in San Diego. Here, NEJM Journal Watch Oncology and Hematology Associate Editor Dr. Anjali Sharathkumar reports some of the key findings in benign hematology.

Concomitant Pulmonary Hypertension Linked to Worse Outcomes in Sickle Cell Crisis

Pulmonary hypertension is common among patients hospitalized for sickle cell crisis and is associated with significant increases in mortality and complication risks, according to an observational study presented at the conference.

Using the National Inpatient Sample database (2018–2020), researchers identified roughly 250,000 adults hospitalized with a primary diagnosis of sickle cell crisis, …