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Immune system diseases

Consensus statement

COVID‐19 vaccination in children and adolescents aged 5 years and older undergoing treatment for cancer and non‐malignant haematological conditions: Australian and New Zealand Children’s Haematology/Oncology Group consensus statement

Eliska Furlong, Rishi S Kotecha, Rachel Conyers, Tracey A O'Brien, Jordan R Hansford, Leanne Super, Peter Downie, David D Eisenstat, Gabrielle Haeusler, Brendan McMullan, Marianne B Phillips, Bhavna Padhye, Luciano Dalla‐Pozza, Frank Alvaro, Christopher J Fraser, Wayne Nicholls, Julia E Clark, Matthew O'Connor, Benjamin R Saxon, Heather Tapp, John Heath, Sarah E Hunter, Karen Tsui, Mark Winstanley, Amanda Lyver, Emma J Best, Ushma Wadia, Daniel Yeoh, Christopher C Blyth and Nicholas G Gottardo

Med J Aust 2022; 216 (6): 312-319 Free

Letters

An Australian case of multisystem inflammatory syndrome in an adult during the 2021 SARS‐CoV‐2 Delta outbreak

Annaleise R Howard‐Jones, Sam R Orde and Zoe Jennings

Med J Aust 2022; 216 (2): 103-104 Free

Medical education / Lessons from practice

Progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy: a complication of prolonged immunosuppression for plasma cell myeloma

Sophie C Burn and Akash Kalro

Med J Aust 2021; 215 (10): 454-455

Medical education / Lessons from practice

Mucormycosis: early treatment is the key to survival

Timothy R Holmes, Jenny L Hepschke, Ian Jacobson and Anthony Maloof

Med J Aust 2021; 215 (9): 401-403

Consensus statement

Consensus guidelines for the management of adult immune thrombocytopenia in Australia and New Zealand

Philip YI Choi, Eileen Merriman, Ashwini Bennett, Anoop K Enjeti, Chee Wee Tan, Isaac Goncalves, Danny Hsu and Robert Bird

Med J Aust 2022; 216 (1): 43-52 Free

Medical education / Lessons from practice

An unusual case of non‐infective endocarditis in undiagnosed antiphospholipid syndrome

Jessica V Yao, Subodh B Joshi, John G Morgan and Melissa GY Lee

Med J Aust 2021; 215 (7): 311-312.e1

Perspectives

Australian and New Zealand approach to diagnosis and management of vaccine‐induced immune thrombosis and thrombocytopenia

Vivien M Chen, Jennifer L Curnow, Huyen A Tran and Philip Y‐I Choi

Med J Aust 2021; 215 (6): 245-249.e1 Free

Medical education / Lessons from practice

Ureaplasma urealyticum septic oligoarthritis in a patient with severe secondary hypogammaglobulinaemia

Peter Bradhurst, Carlos El‐Haddad, John Ng and Nicolás Urriola

Med J Aust 2021; 214 (11): 506-507.e1

Medical education / Lessons from practice

Pharmacovigilance for chlorhexidine anaphylaxis: a preventable adverse reaction

Suran L Fernando, Marc J Capon, Sarah L Green and Michael J Boyle

Med J Aust 2021; 214 (4): 162-163.e1

Medical education / Lessons from practice

Chorea as a paraneoplastic syndrome heralding the transformation of non‐Hodgkin lymphoma

Rebecca Nothrop, Will Lee, Denise Lee and Amanda K Gilligan

Med J Aust 2021; 214 (3): 114-115.e1

Guideline summary

The 2020 Australian guideline for prevention, diagnosis and management of acute rheumatic fever and rheumatic heart disease

Anna P Ralph, Sara Noonan, Vicki Wade and Bart J Currie

Med J Aust 2021; 214 (5): 220-227 Free

Perspectives

Considerations for cancer immunotherapy during the COVID‐19 pandemic

Yada Kanjanapan and Desmond Yip

Med J Aust 2020; 213 (9): 390-392.e1 Free

Research

Respiratory and atopic conditions in children two to four years after the 2014 Hazelwood coalmine fire

Gabriela A Willis, Kate Chappell, Stephanie Williams, Shannon M Melody, Amanda Wheeler, Marita Dalton, Shyamali C Dharmage, Graeme R Zosky and Fay H Johnston

Med J Aust 2020; 213 (6): 269-275 Free

Research letters

Assessing angiotensin‐converting enzyme (ACE) protein is more appropriate than ACE activity when investigating sarcoidosis

Carel J Pretorius and Jacobus PJ Ungerer

Med J Aust 2020; 213 (4): 178-179 Free

Consensus statements

Managing haematology and oncology patients during the COVID‐19 pandemic: interim consensus guidance

Robert Weinkove, Zoe K McQuilten, Jonathan Adler, Meera R Agar, Emily Blyth, Allen C Cheng, Rachel Conyers, Gabrielle M Haeusler, Claire Hardie, Christopher Jackson, Steven W Lane, Tom Middlemiss, Peter Mollee, Stephen P Mulligan, David Ritchie, Myra Ruka, Benjamin Solomon, Jeffrey Szer, Karin A Thursky, Erica M Wood, Leon J Worth, Michelle K Yong, Monica A Slavin and Benjamin W Teh

Med J Aust 2020; 212 (10): 481-489 Free

Research letter

Presentations to emergency departments by children and young people with food allergy are increasing

Rachel O'Loughlin and Harriet Hiscock

Med J Aust 2020; 213 (1): 27-29 Free

Letters

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID‐19) and implications for thiopurine use

Thomas M Goodsall, Samuel P Costello and Robert V Bryant

Med J Aust 2020; 212 (10): 490-490.e1 Free

Narrative review

Beyond skin deep: addressing comorbidities in psoriasis

Tom Kovitwanichkanont, Alvin H Chong and Peter Foley

Med J Aust 2020; 212 (11): 528-534

Medical education / Lessons from practice

A case of drug reaction with eosinophilia and systemic symptoms (DRESS) without a typical precipitant

David WJ Griffin, Genevieve E Martin, Catriona McLean, Allen C Cheng and Michelle L Giles

Med J Aust 2020; 212 (7): 300-301.e1

Editorials

Monitoring changes in infant feeding practices after changes to guidelines for food allergy prevention

Rachel L Peters and Kirsten P Perrett

Med J Aust 2020; 212 (6): 256-257

Research

SmartStartAllergy: a novel tool for monitoring food allergen introduction in infants

Michael O'Sullivan, Sandra Vale, Richard KS Loh, Jessica Metcalfe, Karin Orlemann, Sandra Salter, Ian Peters and Alan Leeb

Med J Aust 2020; 212 (6): 271-275 Free

Medical education / Lessons from practice

Disseminated histoplasmosis in a patient with Crohn's disease on dual immunosuppression

Michael B MacIsaac, Sasha R Fehily, Stephen Muhi, Linda Yang, Penelope A McKelvie, Cameron J Jeremiah and Barbara Demediuk

Med J Aust 2019; 211 (5): 206-207.e1

Research

The increasing use of shave biopsy for diagnosing invasive melanoma in Australia

Sara L de Menezes, John W Kelly, Rory Wolfe, Helen Farrugia and Victoria J Mar

Med J Aust 2019; 211 (5): 213-218 Free

Narrative review

Antiphospholipid syndrome: a clinical review

Veronica Mezhov, Julian D Segan, Huyen Tran and Flavia M Cicuttini

Med J Aust 2019; 211 (4): 184-188

Medical education / Lessons from practice

Abdominal pain in the emergency department: the importance of history taking for common clinical presentations

David J Holland and Michael J Holland

Med J Aust 2019; 210 (11): 489-490.e1