Plasmodium falciparum causing hemophagocytic syndrome after allogeneic blood stem cell transplantation

Hematology Journal

Volumn 5, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 449-450

  Abdelkefi, Abderrahman ^a   Othman, Tarek Ben ^a   Torjman, Lamia ^a   Ladeb, Saloua ^a   Lakhal, Amel ^a   Belhadj, Samir ^b   Ayari, Sameh ^a   Cherif, Nadra ^a   Achour, Oumaya Ben ^a   Chaker, Emna ^b   Abdeladhim, Abdeladhim Ben ^a  

^a CENTRE NATIONAL DE GREFFE DE MOELLE OSSEUSE   (Tunisia)

^b LA RABTA HOSPITAL   (Tunisia)

Author keywords

Bone marrow transplantation; Hemophagocytic syndrome; Pancytopenia; Plasmodium falciparum

Indexed keywords

CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; CYCLOSPORIN A; METHOTREXATE; QUININE;

ADULT; ALLOGENEIC HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; ARTICLE; BLOOD DONOR; BLOOD SMEAR; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; BONE MARROW BIOPSY; CASE REPORT; CELL PROLIFERATION; CHRONIC MYELOMONOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; ERYTHROPHAGOCYTOSIS; FEVER; GRAFT VERSUS HOST REACTION; HEMOPHAGOCYTIC SYNDROME; HEPATOSPLENOMEGALY; HISTIOCYTE; HUMAN; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; MALE; MYELODYSPLASTIC SYNDROME; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NONHUMAN; PANCYTOPENIA; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; PARASITEMIA; PERIPHERAL BLOOD STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; WHOLE BODY RADIATION;

ADULT; ANIMALS; ANTIMALARIALS; BLOOD DONORS; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY; ERYTHROCYTES; HISTIOCYTOSIS, NON-LANGERHANS-CELL; HUMANS; LEUKEMIA, MYELOMONOCYTIC, CHRONIC; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; MALE; PARASITEMIA; PERIPHERAL BLOOD STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; QUININE; REMISSION INDUCTION; TRANSPLANTATION CONDITIONING; TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS;

EID: 5444257424     PISSN: 14664860     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.thj.6200531     Document Type: Article

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