A 10-year-old male with a brain abscess developed pancytopenia, liver dysfunction, disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC) and decrease of immunoglobulin A (IgA) level during postoperative antibiotic and anticonvulsant therapy. A bone marrow examination revealed hemophagocytosis. Real-time PCR revealed parvovirus B19 infection. The hemophagocytic syndrome resolved without specific treatmen...

Infection-associated hemophagocytic syndrome is a life-threatening condition characterized by prolonged fever, hepatosplenomegaly, and cytopenia-most commonly, thrombocytopenia and anemia. It is characterized by proliferation and activation of benign histiocytes, causing dysfunction of various organs. Herein, we report on a 5-month-old boy whose clinical picture and laboratory findings were con...

BACKGROUND Lymphoma-associated hemophagocytic syndrome (LAHS) occurs in mostly extra nodal non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. LAHS arising from gastrointestinal lymphoma has never been reported. Here we report a case of gastric T-cell lymphoma-associated hemophagocytic syndrome. CASE PRESENTATION A 51-year-old woman presented with pain, redness of breasts, fever and hematemesis. Hematological examinatio...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the frequency of hemophagocytic syndrome in a series of patients with otherwise unexplained cytopenia. MATERIAL AND METHOD In this cross-sectional, single-centre study, bone marrow specimens (n=288) were obtained from the patients with unexplained cytopenia. The diagnosis of hemophagocytic syndrome was made according to universally accepted criteria. Characteristics o...

1 Larroche C, Mouthon L. Pathogenesis of hemophagocytic syndrome (HPS). Autoimmun Rev 2004;3:69–75. 2 Ravelli A. Macrophage activation syndrome. Curr Opin Rheumatol 2002;14: 548–52. 3 Hibi S, Ikushima S, Fujiwara F et al. Serum and urine beta-2-microglobulin in hemophagocytic syndrome. Cancer 1995;75:1700–5. 4 Wellwood JM, Ellis BG, Price RG, Hammond K, Thompson AE, Jones NF. Urinary N-acetylbe...

1 Larroche C, Mouthon L. Pathogenesis of hemophagocytic syndrome (HPS). Autoimmun Rev 2004;3:69–75. 2 Ravelli A. Macrophage activation syndrome. Curr Opin Rheumatol 2002;14: 548–52. 3 Hibi S, Ikushima S, Fujiwara F et al. Serum and urine beta-2-microglobulin in hemophagocytic syndrome. Cancer 1995;75:1700–5. 4 Wellwood JM, Ellis BG, Price RG, Hammond K, Thompson AE, Jones NF. Urinary N-acetylbe...

Hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis is character-ized by fever, hepatosplenomegaly, cytopenia, hyper-triglyceridemia, hypofibrinogenemia, and hemophago-cytosis. Ascites is not mentioned as a symptom of hemophagocytic syndrome. We report a one month-old girl suffering from familial erythrophagocytic lympho-histiocytosis, who presented with ascites.

Hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis (HLH) is a syndrome characterized by severe hyperinflammation due to an overwhelming ineffective immune response to different triggers. Most important symptoms are fever, hepatosplenomegaly and cytopenias. Biochemical signs include elevated ferritin, hypertriglyceridemia and low fibrinogen. Hemophagocytosis in the bone marrow is a hallmark of this syndrome. Ba...

INTRODUCTION Hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis is an immune-mediated syndrome that typically has a rapidly progressive course that can result in pancytopenia, coagulopathy, multi-system organ failure and death. CASE PRESENTATION A 57-year-old Caucasian woman was referred in fulminant hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis, with fever, pancytopenia, splenomegaly, mental status changes and respira...