Hemophagocytic Lymphohistiocytosis in Dermatomyositis
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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...
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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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عنوان ژورنال: Balkan Medical Journal
سال: 2019
ISSN: 2146-3123,2146-3131
DOI: 10.4274/balkanmedj.2018.1339