Familial haemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis in two newborn siblings: A good mimicker of newborn sepsis

Annals of Tropical Paediatrics

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 231-235

  Bas, Ahmet Yagmur ^a   Demirel, Nihal ^a   Zenciroglu, Ayşegul ^a   Yarali, Nese ^a   Metin, Ayse ^b  

^a DR SAMI ULUS CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Turkey)

^b Diskapi Children's Hospital   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; D DIMER; DEXAMETHASONE; ETOPOSIDE; FERRITIN; FRESH FROZEN PLASMA; HEMOGLOBIN; HUMAN ALBUMIN;

CHILD HEALTH; DISEASE INCIDENCE; PATHOLOGY; VIRAL DISEASE;

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; ALBUMIN BLOOD LEVEL; APGAR SCORE; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; ASCITES; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; AUTOPSY; AUTOSOMAL RECESSIVE DISORDER; BILE DUCT DILATATION; BILIRUBIN BLOOD LEVEL; BIRTH WEIGHT; BLOOD GAS ANALYSIS; BONE MARROW BIOPSY; CASE REPORT; CESAREAN SECTION; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE EXACERBATION; DISSEMINATED INTRAVASCULAR CLOTTING; ECHOGRAPHY; ERYTHROCYTE CONCENTRATE; ERYTHROPHAGOCYTOSIS; FATALITY; FEMALE; FERRITIN BLOOD LEVEL; FEVER; HEMOGLOBIN DETERMINATION; HEMOPHAGOCYTIC LYMPHOHISTIOCYTOSIS; HEPATOSPLENOMEGALY; HUMAN; INFANT; IRRITABILITY; LABORATORY TEST; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MALE; NEWBORN SEPSIS; PARTIAL THROMBOPLASTIN TIME; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PROTHROMBIN TIME; SUCKING; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; THROMBOCYTE TRANSFUSION;

BONE MARROW; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; LYMPHOHISTIOCYTOSIS, HEMOPHAGOCYTIC; MALE; SEPSIS;

EID: 35548936820     PISSN: 02724936     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1179/146532807X220352     Document Type: Article

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