Hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytic syndrome: Unrecognized cause of multiple organ failure

Pediatric Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 51-54

  Nahum, Elhanan ^a   Ben Ari, Josef ^a   Stain, Jeremiya ^a   Tommy, Schonfeld ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

acute respiratory distress syndrome; capillary leak; children; familial hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytic syndrome; infectious associated hemophagocytosis; liver failure; organ failure; pediatric; renal failure; shock

Indexed keywords

EID: 84992261246     PISSN: 15297535     EISSN: 19473893     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00130478-200007000-00010     Document Type: Article

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