Fatal hemophagocytic syndrome as a manifestation of immune reconstitution syndrome in a patient with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome

Saudi Medical Journal

Volumn 34, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 861-864

  Safdar, Samreen M ^a   Rehman, Jalil U ^a   Samman, Eba M ^a   Bahabri, Nezar M ^a  

^a KING FAISAL SPECIALIST HOSPITAL AND RESEARCH CENTER   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACICLOVIR; ATOVAQUONE; BILIRUBIN; CASPOFUNGIN; CLARITHROMYCIN; CREATININE; DARUNAVIR; DEXAMETHASONE; EMTRICITABINE; FERRITIN; HEMOGLOBIN; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE; MEROPENEM; RITONAVIR; STEROID; TENOFOVIR DISOPROXIL; TRIACYLGLYCEROL; VANCOMYCIN;

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; BONE MARROW BIOPSY; CASE REPORT; CD4 LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; HEMOPHAGOCYTIC SYNDROME; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPERTRANSAMINASEMIA; HYPOTENSION; IMMUNE RECONSTITUTION INFLAMMATORY SYNDROME; INTERNATIONAL NORMALIZED RATIO; LABORATORY TEST; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MALE; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTION; PANCYTOPENIA; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS; SEPTIC SHOCK; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; VIRUS LOAD;

ACQUIRED IMMUNODEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ADULT; ANTI-RETROVIRAL AGENTS; ANTIRETROVIRAL THERAPY, HIGHLY ACTIVE; FATAL OUTCOME; HUMANS; IMMUNE RECONSTITUTION INFLAMMATORY SYNDROME; LYMPHOHISTIOCYTOSIS, HEMOPHAGOCYTIC; MALE;

EID: 84888856404     PISSN: 03795284     EISSN: 16583175     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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