Severe hemophagocytic syndrome developing after treatment initiation for disseminated Mycobacterium tuberculosis: Case report and literature review

Scandinavian Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 41, Issue 6-7, 2009, Pages 535-537

  Balkis, Maher M ^a   Bazzi, Lama ^a   Taher, Ali ^a   Salem, Ziad ^a   Uthman, Imad ^a   Kanj, Nadim ^a   Boulos, Fouad I ^a   Kanj, Souha S ^a  

^a AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF BEIRUT   (Lebanon)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ETHAMBUTOL; GENTAMICIN; ISONIAZID; LEVOFLOXACIN; LOW MOLECULAR WEIGHT HEPARIN; PYRAZINAMIDE; RIFAMPICIN; STREPTOMYCIN; VINCRISTINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BONE MARROW BIOPSY; BRONCHOSCOPY; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; FEVER; HEMATOPHAGOCYTIC SYNDROME; HEPATOSPLENOMEGALY; HUMAN; IMMUNOPATHOLOGY; LUNG LAVAGE; LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; LYMPHADENITIS; MACROPHAGE; MALE; MEDIASTINOSCOPY; MILIARY TUBERCULOSIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; PANCYTOPENIA; PHAGOCYTOSIS; SPLENECTOMY; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; THROMBOCYTE TRANSFUSION; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; TOXIC HEPATITIS; ULTRASOUND; WEGENER GRANULOMATOSIS;

ADULT; ANTITUBERCULAR AGENTS; HUMANS; LYMPHOHISTIOCYTOSIS, HEMOPHAGOCYTIC; MALE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 72149103770     PISSN: 00365548     EISSN: 16511980     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00365540902978075     Document Type: Article

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