30 June 2016 (Thursday) - Daratumumab

An interesting case today – look at these results. Nothing particularly disastrous, but everything rather on the low side.

Specimen Results Entry PITSTOP,PENELOPE                              AB+       30/06/2016 10:00 MRS      17/02/1955   Female   0123456           KCH Out Patients Dept. 22 The Street                                    Dr Kildare                                                       U         U Specimen No   :  AK642984P               Selected Auth Level : S --------------------T-------------------T-------------------T-------------------  HB    ^9.5    S000 |NEUH   1.4    S000 |                   |  HBG    95     S000 |LYMPH  0.7    S000 |                   |  WBC    2.3    S000 |MONO   0.2    S000 |                   |  PLT    72     S000 |EOS    0.0    S000 |                   |  RBC    3.23   S000 |BASO   0.0    S000 |                   |  HCT    0.295  S000 |FR    ^FLMREV S000 |                   |  MCV    91.3   S000 |                   |                   |  MCH    29.4   S000 |                   |                   |  MCHC  ^32.2   S000 |                   |                   |  MCHCG  322    S000 |                   |                   | --------------------T-------------------T-------------------T------------------- LTG comments : <F.>,FR  1 Auth'd   2 Unauth'd   3 Nomin'd   4 Change   5 Reject  6 Options  7 eXit> U

The patient had a one word diagnosis “Daratumumab”. So over to Google…

Daratumumab is used in cases of myeloma. Once I’d looked it up it seemed very familiar.

I’m sure I’ve blogged about it before. I wonder if I will do so again. Mind you reminding myself is (in part) what CPD is all about.