Severe hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis in adults-experience from an intensive care unit from North India

Indian Journal of Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 198-203

  Rajagopala, Srinivas ^a   Singh, Navneet ^b   Agarwal, Ritesh ^b   Gupta, Dheeraj ^b   Das, Reena ^b  

^a Global Hospitals and Health City   (India)

^b POSTGRADUATE INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL EDUCATION AND RESEARCH   (India)

Author keywords

Hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis; hemophagocytic syndrome; multi organ dysfunction; tropics

Indexed keywords

ACICLOVIR; AMPHOTERICIN; ARTESUNATE; CEPHALOSPORIN; CYCLOSPORIN; ETOPOSIDE; HYPERTENSIVE AGENT; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; MACROLIDE; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; STEROID; TUBERCULOSTATIC AGENT;

ADULT; ADULT RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE DURATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; FEMALE; FEVER; HEMOPHAGOCYTIC SYNDROME; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INDIA; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LEISHMANIASIS; LIVER DISEASE; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MORTALITY; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SKIN MANIFESTATION; STEROID THERAPY; SYMPTOM; TUBERCULOSIS; VIRUS INFECTION;

EID: 84875177985     PISSN: 09725229     EISSN: 1998359X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4103/0972-5229.106501     Document Type: Review

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