Highlights of the 24th European hematology association congress, Amsterdam 2019

Abstract

24th Congress of European Hematology Association was held from 13th to 16th July in Amsterdam, Netherlands. Over 12000 specialists took part in the meeting and more than 360 oral and 1300 poster presentations were made, covering most of hematology fields. The main purpose of this article was to review the most important and relevant topics discussed during congress in such areas as hematopoietic stem cell transplantation, lymphomas, acute leukemia, multiple myeloma and other plasma cell disorders, myeloproliferative neoplasms and infectious complications in hematological patients. In this review, we briefly describe results of works which, in view of the authors, are of most clinical and scientific significance for hematopoietic stem cell transplantation. Moreover, the emerging topics and trends in different fields of hematology were discussed. Other interesting studies and presentations can be accessed through the EHA online-library.