Successful treatment of recurrent malignancy-associated hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis with a modified HLH-94 immunochemotherapy and allogeneic stem cell transplantation

Medical Oncology

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 1231-1236

  Machaczka, Maciej ^a   Nahi, Hareth ^a   Karbach, Holger ^a   Klimkowska, Monika ^a   Hägglund, Hans ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Allogeneic; Hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis; Hemophagocytic syndrome; Lymphoma; Malignancy; Malignancy associated; Stem cell transplantation

Indexed keywords

ACTIVIN RECEPTOR LIKE KINASE 1; AMINO TERMINAL PRO BRAIN NATRIURETIC PEPTIDE; CORTICOSTEROID; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; CYTARABINE; DOXORUBICIN; ETOPOSIDE; FERRITIN; GRANULOCYTE COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR; HEMOGLOBIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; METHOTREXATE; PREDNISOLONE; VALGANCICLOVIR; VINBLASTINE; VINCRISTINE; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; DEXAMETHASONE; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT; MITOXANTRONE;

ABDOMINAL DISCOMFORT; ABDOMINAL PAIN; ACUTE RESPIRATORY FAILURE; ADULT; AGGRESSION; ALLOGENEIC PERIPHERAL BLOOD STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; ARTHRALGIA; ARTICLE; BLOOD ANALYSIS; BONE MARROW EXAMINATION; CANCER INFILTRATION; CANCER REGRESSION; CANCER REHABILITATION; CASE REPORT; CAUCASIAN; CHRONIC GRAFT VERSUS HOST DISEASE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONFUSION; CYTOGENETICS; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTION; DIARRHEA; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE COURSE; DONOR LYMPHOCYTE INFUSION; DRUG MEGADOSE; ENGRAFTMENT; ENTEROCOCCAL INFECTION; EUPHORIA; EXHAUSTION; FEMALE; FERRITIN BLOOD LEVEL; FEVER; FLUID RETENTION; FLUORESCENCE ACTIVATED CELL SORTING; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENERAL CONDITION DETERIORATION; HEART FAILURE; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HEMOPHAGOCYTIC SYNDROME; HEPATOSPLENOMEGALY; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; HYPOALBUMINEMIA; IMMUNOHISTOLOGY; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LARGE CELL LYMPHOMA; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LUMBAR PUNCTURE; LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; LYMPHADENOPATHY; MEDICAL HISTORY; MUCOSA INFLAMMATION; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; MYELOABLATIVE CONDITIONING; NIGHT SWEAT; PANCYTOPENIA; PERIPHERAL NEUROPATHY; PLEURA EFFUSION; POSITIVE END EXPIRATORY PRESSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUVA; RECURRENT CANCER; RELAPSE; SCLERODERMA; SPLEEN SIZE; T CELL LYMPHOMA; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; VENTILATOR; ALLOTRANSPLANTATION; DRUG COMBINATION; GRAFT VERSUS HOST REACTION; HEMOPHAGOCYTIC LYMPHOHISTIOCYTOSIS; IMMUNOLOGY; LYMPHOCYTE TRANSFUSION; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; PROGNOSIS; REMISSION; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; TUMOR RECURRENCE;

ADULT; ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; CYTARABINE; DEXAMETHASONE; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; ETOPOSIDE; FEMALE; GRAFT VS HOST DISEASE; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; LYMPHOCYTE TRANSFUSION; LYMPHOHISTIOCYTOSIS, HEMOPHAGOCYTIC; LYMPHOMA, LARGE-CELL, ANAPLASTIC; MITOXANTRONE; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; PROGNOSIS; REMISSION INDUCTION; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84866293713     PISSN: 13570560     EISSN: 1559131X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12032-011-9963-3     Document Type: Article

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