Effect of plasma exchange on refractory hemophagocytic syndrome complicated with myelodysplastic syndrome

Therapeutic Apheresis

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 317-319

  Satomi, Akiyo ^a   Nagai, Shiho ^a   Nagai, Tetsushi ^a   Niikura, Kazuhiko ^a   Ideura, Terukuni ^a   Ogata, Hiroaki ^b   Akizawa, Tadao ^c  

^a SHOWA UNIVERSITY FUJIGAOKA HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^c WAKAYAMA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Hemophagocytic syndrome; Inflammatory cytokine; Myelodysplastic syndrome; Plasma exchange; Tuberculosis

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID; METHYLPREDNISOLONE;

ADULT; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CASE REPORT; CHRONIC GLOMERULONEPHRITIS; CONFERENCE PAPER; FEMALE; HEMODIALYSIS; HEMOPHAGOCYTIC SYNDROME; HUMAN; LUNG TUBERCULOSIS; MYELODYSPLASTIC SYNDROME; PANCYTOPENIA; PLASMAPHERESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADOLESCENT; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HISTIOCYTOSIS, NON-LANGERHANS-CELL; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MYELODYSPLASTIC SYNDROMES; PLASMAPHERESIS; RECURRENCE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUBERCULOSIS, PULMONARY;

EID: 0032708763     PISSN: 10916660     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1526-0968.1999.00209.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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