Extreme lymphoplasmacytosis and hepatic failure associated with sulfasalazine hypersensitivity reaction and a concurrent EBV infection - Case report and review of the literature

Annals of Hematology

Volumn 83, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 242-246

  Halmos, B ^a   Anastopoulos, H T ^a   Schnipper, L E ^a   Ballesteros, E ^b  

^a BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Crohn's disease; Epstein Barr virus; Hypersensitivity; Lymphocytes; Sulfasalazine

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; BILIRUBIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; LACTULOSE; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; PREDNISOLONE; SALAZOSULFAPYRIDINE; STEROID; SULFANILAMIDE DERIVATIVE;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; ALLERGIC REACTION; ARTICLE; BILIRUBIN BLOOD LEVEL; BONE MARROW BIOPSY; CASE REPORT; COMORBIDITY; CONFUSION; CONVALESCENCE; CROHN DISEASE; DIARRHEA; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DRUG ERUPTION; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; EPSTEIN BARR VIRUS; ERYTHEMA; ERYTHEMA MULTIFORME; FEVER; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HALLUCINATION; HEMATOCRIT; HEPATOSPLENOMEGALY; HUMAN; HYPERBILIRUBINEMIA; HYPERGAMMAGLOBULINEMIA; HYPERSENSITIVITY REACTION; HYPOCOMPLEMENTEMIA; LETHARGY; LEUKEMOID REACTION; LEUKOCYTOSIS; LIVER DYSFUNCTION; LIVER FAILURE; LIVER TOXICITY; LYMPHADENOPATHY; LYMPHOCYTOSIS; LYMPHOPROLIFERATIVE DISEASE; MALE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MEDICAL LITERATURE; PAPILLEDEMA; PERIANAL ABSCESS; PERIPHERAL LYMPHOCYTE; PLASMACYTOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTHROMBIN TIME; SIDE EFFECT; SKIN EDEMA; STEROID THERAPY; VIRUS INFECTION;

ADULT; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DRUG HYPERSENSITIVITY; EPSTEIN-BARR VIRUS INFECTIONS; HUMANS; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LIVER FAILURE; LYMPHOCYTOSIS; MALE; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; PLASMA CELLS; SULFASALAZINE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 1842477449     PISSN: 09395555     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00277-003-0746-6     Document Type: Article

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