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Hemophagocytic Lymphohistiocytosis
To investigate the clinical features of adult patients with hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis (HLH) and to explore possible risk factors for death, we retrospectively reviewed the medical records of 103 adult HLH patients hospitalized from 1997 to 2012. We analyzed the underlying diseases, clinical characteristics, 1aboratory findings, outcomes, and prognostic factors. The most common cause of...
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A 34-year-old male with a history of T cell–rich B-cell lymphoma relapsed 1 year after high-dose therapy with recurrent fevers, abdominal pain, and jaundice. He was cachetic with hepatosplenomegaly and ascites. Laboratory findings showed a white blood cell count of 2.7 109/L, hemoglobin 8.7 g/dL, platelets of 21 109/L, hyperbilirubinemia, and no evidence of hemolysis including a negative Coombs...
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PURPOSE OF REVIEW Hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis (HLH) is a condition of uncontrolled immune activation with a high mortality rate. The recommended therapeutic guideline for HLH was published by the Histiocyte Society in 1994 and revised in 2004, which greatly improved the survival in patients with HLH. However, HLH is still a refractory disease for which the search for novel treatments con...
متن کاملHemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis in adults
Dear Sir, I read with interest a recent article by Antonodimitrakis and colleagues in your journal presenting a case of acquired hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis (HLH) in a 60-year-old woman suffering from diabetes mellitus type 2 (1). The reported patient developed a life-threatening HLH associated with a reactivation of an Epstein–Barr virus (EBV) infection and was successfully treated by m...
متن کاملHemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis in adults
Corresponding author: Jeongmin Kim, M.D., Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, Anesthesia and Pain Research Institute, Yonsei University College of Medicine, 50, Yonsei-ro, Seodaemun-gu, Seoul 120-752, Korea. Tel: 82-2-2227-3569, Fax: 82-2-2227-7897, E-mail: [email protected] This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commerc...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Baylor University Medical Center Proceedings
سال: 2018
ISSN: 0899-8280,1525-3252
DOI: 10.1080/08998280.2018.1446877