A case of hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis after the primary Epstein-Barr virus infection

Clinical and Applied Thrombosis/Hemostasis

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 323-328

  Kitazawa, Yasuhide ^a   Saito, Fukuki ^a   Nomura, Shosaku ^b   Ishii, Kazuyoshi ^b   Kadota, Eiji ^b  

^a KANSAI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b Kishiwada City Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation; Fulminant hepatic failure; Plasma exchange; Splenectomy

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; CYCLOSPORIN A; GRANULOCYTE COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; METHYLPREDNISOLONE SODIUM SUCCINATE; PREDNISOLONE;

ACUTE RESPIRATORY FAILURE; ADULT; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CASE REPORT; CYTOPENIA; EPSTEIN BARR VIRUS; ERYTHROCYTE; EXTRACORPOREAL OXYGENATION; FEMALE; HEMOPHAGOCYTIC LYMPHOHISTIOCYTOSIS; HUMAN; IMMUNOPATHOLOGY; INTENSIVE CARE; LIVER; LIVER CELL; LIVER FAILURE; MACROPHAGE; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; PLASMAPHERESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPLENECTOMY; VIRUS INFECTION;

ADULT; BONE MARROW; CYCLOSPORINE; EPSTEIN-BARR VIRUS INFECTIONS; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; HUMANS; INVERSION, CHROMOSOME; LIVER; LIVER FAILURE, ACUTE; LYMPHOHISTIOCYTOSIS, HEMOPHAGOCYTIC; MACROPHAGES; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; SPLENECTOMY;

EID: 34347254973     PISSN: 10760296     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1076029607302570     Document Type: Article

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