Hemophagocytic syndrome after living-donor liver transplantation for fulminant liver failure: A case report

Hepato-Gastroenterology

Volumn 52, Issue 63, 2005, Pages 923-926

  Taniai, Nobuhiko ^a   Akimaru, Koho ^a   Kawano, Youichi ^a   Mizuguchi, Yoshiaki ^a   Shimizu, Tetuya ^a   Takahashi, Tsubasa ^a   Mamada, Yasuhiro ^a   Yoshida, Hiroshi ^a   Tajiri, Takashi ^a  

^a NIPPON MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Fulminant liver failure; Hemophagocytic syndrome (HPS); Living donor liver transplantation (LDLT)

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; BILIRUBIN; FERRITIN; INTERLEUKIN 2 RECEPTOR; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BONE MARROW BIOPSY; CASE REPORT; CAUSE OF DEATH; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; FERRITIN BLOOD LEVEL; HEMODIALYSIS; HEMOPHAGOCYTIC SYNDROME; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; LIVER FAILURE; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONOR; MACROPHAGE ACTIVATION; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; PANCYTOPENIA; PLASMAPHERESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RECIPIENT; T LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION;

ADULT; BIOPSY; BIOPSY, NEEDLE; BONE MARROW; CYTOKINES; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; FERRITINS; GRAFT REJECTION; HEPATECTOMY; HUMANS; LIVER; LIVER FAILURE, ACUTE; LIVER FUNCTION TESTS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONORS; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; LYMPHOHISTIOCYTOSIS, HEMOPHAGOCYTIC; PLATELET COUNT; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RECEPTORS, INTERLEUKIN-2; RISK FACTORS; T-LYMPHOCYTES;

EID: 20644436056     PISSN: 01726390     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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