Hemophagocytic syndrome after liver transplantation: Report of two cases

Surgery Today

Volumn 41, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 1524-1530

  Soyama, Akihiko ^a   Eguchi, Susumu ^a   Takatsuki, Mitsuhisa ^a   Hidaka, Masaaki ^a   Tomonaga, Tetsuo ^a   Yamanouchi, Kosho ^a   Miyazaki, Kensuke ^a   Inokuma, Takamitsu ^a   Tajima, Yoshitsugu ^a   Kanematsu, Takashi ^a  

^a NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

Granulocyte colony stimulating factor; Hemophagocytic syndrome; Hepatocellular carcinoma; Intravenous globulin; Liver transplantation; Pancytopenia

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN; ALPHA FETOPROTEIN; BILIRUBIN; BILIRUBIN GLUCURONIDE; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS ANTIBODY; ENTECAVIR; EPSTEIN BARR VIRUS ANTIGEN; FERRITIN; FOSCARNET SODIUM; FRESH FROZEN PLASMA; GANCICLOVIR; GRANULOCYTE COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR; HEPATITIS B ANTIBODY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G ANTIBODY; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; STEROID; TACROLIMUS; VIRUS CAPSID ANTIGEN; VIRUS RNA;

ADULT; ALBUMIN BLOOD LEVEL; ANTIGENEMIA; ARTERY THROMBOSIS; ARTICLE; ASCITES FLUID; BICYTOPENIA; BILIRUBIN BLOOD LEVEL; BONE MARROW BIOPSY; CASE REPORT; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTION; CYTOPENIA; DEATH; DECOMPENSATED LIVER CIRRHOSIS; DISSEMINATED INTRAVASCULAR CLOTTING; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; DRUG PULSE THERAPY; DRUG SUBSTITUTION; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; FEVER; HEMOPHAGOCYTIC SYNDROME; HEPATIC ARTERY; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS C; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE BLOOD LEVEL; LAPAROTOMY; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LEUKOPENIA; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MACROPHAGE; MALE; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; PANCYTOPENIA; PHAGOCYTOSIS; PROTHROMBIN TIME; REOPERATION; SEPSIS; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; THROMBOCYTE TRANSFUSION;

BONE MARROW CELLS; DISEASE PROGRESSION; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; FATAL OUTCOME; HUMANS; LIVER FAILURE; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONORS; LYMPHOHISTIOCYTOSIS, HEMOPHAGOCYTIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; PANCYTOPENIA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 84855180535     PISSN: 09411291     EISSN: 14362813     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00595-010-4512-9     Document Type: Article

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