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HEMOPHAGOCYTIC SYNDROME IN TYPHOID FEVER AND BRUCELLOSIS
Hemophagocytic syndrome is a non-malignant process that is characterized clinically by fever, hepatomegaly, splenomegaly, pancytopenia in peripheral blood, and reactive histiocytes in the bone marrow. Bacterial infectious diseases like typhoid fever and brucellosis and viral infections including CMV, herpes viruses, and Epstein-Barr virus are diagnosed as the cause of this syndrome. In thi...
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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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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: The journal of the Japanese Society of Lymphoreticular Tissue research
سال: 1997
ISSN: 1883-681X,1342-9248
DOI: 10.3960/jslrt1997.37.305