Complete atrioventricular block and aseptic meningitis in a patient with adult-onset Still’s disease and concurrent hemophagocytic syndrome

Modern Rheumatology

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 332-333

  Tsuchiya, Haruka ^a   Tsuno, Hirotaka ^a   Kaneko, Syunta ^a   Yamashita, Hiroyuki ^a   Takahashi, Yuko ^a   Kano, Toshikazu ^a   Mimori, Akio ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR GLOBAL HEALTH AND MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Adult onset Still s disease; Aseptic meningitis; Complete atrioventricular block; Hemophagocytic syndrome

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CYCLOSPORIN; D DIMER; DEXAMETHASONE; FIBRINOGEN; HEMOGLOBIN; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE; PREDNISONE; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT;

ADULT; ADULT ONSET STILL DISEASE; ASEPTIC MENINGITIS; ATRIOVENTRICULAR BLOCK; BONE MARROW BIOPSY; BRADYCARDIA; CASE REPORT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; COMMUNICATION DISORDER; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ERYTHEMA; HEMOPHAGOCYTIC SYNDROME; HEPATOSPLENOMEGALY; HUMAN; HYPERFERRITINEMIA; LETTER; LEUKOCYTOSIS; LYMPHADENOPATHY; MALE; MENINGISM; PLEOCYTOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOMNOLENCE; COMPLICATION; LYMPHOHISTIOCYTOSIS, HEMOPHAGOCYTIC; MENINGITIS, ASEPTIC; STILL'S DISEASE, ADULT-ONSET; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; ATRIOVENTRICULAR BLOCK; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; LYMPHOHISTIOCYTOSIS, HEMOPHAGOCYTIC; MALE; MENINGITIS, ASEPTIC; STILL'S DISEASE, ADULT-ONSET; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84924425671     PISSN: 14397595     EISSN: 14397609     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/14397595.2014.882220     Document Type: Letter

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