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24 th Congress of European Hematology Association was held from 13 th to 16 th 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.

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Invasive fungal diseases (IFD) are a major cause of morbidity and mortality in hematological patients, but prognosis of IFD has improved recently, due to introduction of new antifungals and efficient diagnostic procedures. Number of patients with IFD who are candidates for allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplant (allo-HSCT) increased. However, publications on the field are limited and there are no data on results of pediatric allo-HSCT patients with prior IFD. This study focuses on the outcomes of allo-HSCT in children and adults with prior IFD.

Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia (PJP) is life-threatening disease in immunocompromised patients with HIV infection, after solid organ transplantations and hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT). The number of publications on epidemiology of PJP in patients with hematological diseases after HSCT and chemotherapy (CT) is limited.