Effect of plasma exchange on the circulating IL-6 levels in patient with fatal hemophagocytic syndrome associated with bile ductopenia

Therapeutic Apheresis and Dialysis

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 87-89

  Song, Kyung Soon ^a,b   Sung, Hyun Joo ^a  

^a Yonsei University   (South Korea)

^b Yonsei University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Cytokine; Epstein Barr virus; Hemophagocytic syndrome; Plasma exchange

Indexed keywords

BILIRUBIN; INTERLEUKIN 6; VIRUS DNA;

ACUTE GRAFT REJECTION; ADULT; ARTICLE; BILE DUCT DISEASE; BILIRUBIN BLOOD LEVEL; BONE MARROW BIOPSY; CASE REPORT; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHOLESTASIS; CIRCULATION; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE DURATION; DISSEMINATED INTRAVASCULAR CLOTTING; EPSTEIN BARR VIRUS; FATALITY; FEVER; FOLLOW UP; HEMOPHAGOCYTIC SYNDROME; HERPES; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPERBILIRUBINEMIA; JAUNDICE; LIVER BIOPSY; LIVER DYSFUNCTION; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LUNG HEMORRHAGE; MALAISE; MALE; PLASMAPHERESIS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SORE THROAT; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; BILE DUCTS, EXTRAHEPATIC; BILIRUBIN; CHOLESTASIS, INTRAHEPATIC; EPSTEIN-BARR VIRUS INFECTIONS; FATAL OUTCOME; HUMANS; INTERLEUKIN-6; LYMPHOHISTIOCYTOSIS, HEMOPHAGOCYTIC; MALE; PLASMA EXCHANGE;

EID: 33644972006     PISSN: 17449979     EISSN: 17449987     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1744-9987.2006.00347.x     Document Type: Article

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