Macrophage activation syndrome revealing disseminated tuberculosis in a patient on infliximab

Joint Bone Spine

Volumn 80, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 109-110

  André, Vincent ^a   Liddell, Charly ^a   Guimard, Thomas ^a   Tanguy, Gilles ^a   Cormier, Grégoire ^a  

^a Service de Reanimation Polyvalente   (France)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; FERRITIN; FIBRINOGEN; INFLIXIMAB; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE; LEFLUNOMIDE; PREDNISONE; TRIACYLGLYCEROL;

AGED; BONE MARROW BIOPSY; CASE REPORT; ERYTHROPHAGOCYTOSIS; FEVER; FIBRINOGEN BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; HYPERTRANSAMINASEMIA; LABORATORY TEST; LETTER; LYMPHOCYTIC INFILTRATION; MACROPHAGE ACTIVATION SYNDROME; MALE; MILIARY TUBERCULOSIS; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; PANCYTOPENIA; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PSORIATIC ARTHRITIS; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

AGED; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS, NON-STEROIDAL; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; ARTHRITIS, PSORIATIC; FATAL OUTCOME; HUMANS; MACROPHAGE ACTIVATION SYNDROME; MALE; TUBERCULOSIS; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR-ALPHA;

EID: 84872872334     PISSN: 1297319X     EISSN: 17787254     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbspin.2012.06.022     Document Type: Letter

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