Haemophagocytic syndrome--a life-threatening complication of renal transplantation
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Haemophagocytic syndrome--a life-threatening complication of renal transplantation.
Haemophagocytic syndrome (HPS), also referred as macrophage activation syndrome (MAS) or haemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis, is a clinicopathologic entity caused by systemic proliferation of benign haemophagocytic cells of the monocyte–macrophage–histiocyte lineage. Criteria for diagnosis include fever, hepato-splenomegaly, neurological dysfunction, pancytopaenia, hypertriglyceridaemia, hypofi...
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عنوان ژورنال: Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation
سال: 2009
ISSN: 0931-0509,1460-2385
DOI: 10.1093/ndt/gfp282