An elderly patient with hemophagocytic syndrome due to severe Mycoplasma pneumonia with marked hypercytokinemia

Respiration

Volumn 69, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 87-91

  Mizukane, Ryusuke ^a,c   Kadota, Jun Ichi ^b   Yamaguchi, Toshiyuki ^a   Kiya, Takakazu ^a   Fukushima, Hiromichi ^a   Nakatomi, Masao ^a   Kohno, Shigeru ^b  

^a National Hospital Organization Nagasaki Hospital   (Japan)

^b NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c Pharmaceuticals and Medical Devices Evaluation Center   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cytokines; Elderly case; Hemophagocytic syndrome; Mycoplasmapneumonia

Indexed keywords

COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR 1; CYTOKINE; ERYTHROMYCIN; INTERLEUKIN 10; INTERLEUKIN 2 RECEPTOR; INTERLEUKIN 6; METHYLPREDNISOLONE;

AGED; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BONE MARROW BIOPSY; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE ACTIVITY; DISEASE MARKER; DISEASE SEVERITY; HEMOPHAGOCYTIC SYNDROME; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; KIDNEY FAILURE; LABORATORY TEST; LIVER DYSFUNCTION; MACROPHAGE; MALE; MYCOPLASMA PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; BONE MARROW; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; ERYTHROMYCIN; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HISTIOCYTOSIS; HUMANS; MALE; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; PNEUMONIA, MYCOPLASMA; RESPIRATORY INSUFFICIENCY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SYNDROME; THROMBOCYTOPENIA;

EID: 0036180022     PISSN: 00257931     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000049377     Document Type: Article

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