Pediatric Blood & Cancer
Pain Management After Pediatric Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation: A Narrative Review of Pain Phenotypes, Assessment, and Multimodal Care
ABSTRACT Pain is a common and clinically significant complication of pediatric hematopoietic cell transplantation (HCT). It evolves across conditioning, engraftment, early recovery, and survivorship, and may result from mucosal injury, procedures, graft‐versus‐host disease (GVHD), infection, medication toxicity, immobility, and long‐term complications. Pediatric HCT‐specific guidance remains limited, so practice is often extrapolated from broader pediatric oncology, adult HCT, and supportive/palliative care literat …