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Reactive Hemophagocytic Syndrome

Pediatric Pathology, 1985
Two cases of reactive hemophagocytic syndrome (RHS) are reported, and the clinical and pathological features are compared with other histiocytic proliferative disorders, including familial hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis (FHL) and malignant histiocytosis.
Richard Hong, Enid F Gilbert, E F Gilbert   +2 more
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Hemophagocytic syndrome in pregnancy

Obstetrics & Gynecology, 2000
Hemophagocytic syndrome is characterized by nonmalignant histiocytes that undergo uncontrolled phagocytosis of normal hematopoietic cells. Clinical severity ranges from complete recovery to rapid deterioration and death.Thrombocytopenia was discovered upon routine initial prenatal evaluation of a 24-year-old, gravida 2, para 1, at 29 weeks' gestation ...
R H, Chmait, D L, Meimin, C H, Koo, J, Huffaker   +3 more
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Reactive Hemophagocytic syndrome

The Indian Journal of Pediatrics, 2008
We describe two cases of Reactive Hemophagocytic syndrome (RHS) occurring in rheumatic diseases in childhood. Patient 1, an adolescent girl with systemic onset Juvenile idopathic arthritis (JRA) presented like severe sepsis with shock, hepatic dysfunction and coagulopathy.
L, Rajam, Vinitha, Prasad, B L, Yatheesha   +2 more
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Hemophagocytic syndromes — An update

Blood Reviews, 2014
Hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis (HLH) is a life-threatening hyperinflammatory syndrome and not an independent disease. HLH represents the extreme end of a severe uncontrolled hyperinflammatory reaction that can occur in many underlying conditions. Genetic forms of HLHs are due to defects in transport, processing and function of cytotoxic granules in
Gritta E, Janka, Kai, Lehmberg
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Hypercytokinemia in Hemophagocytic Syndrome

Journal of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology, 1993
The study was performed to clarify in the hemophagocytic syndrome (HPS) how cytokinemia plays a role in its pathogenesis and if cytokinemia is of prognostic value.Serum concentrations of ferritin, interferon (IFN)-gamma, soluble interleukin-2 (IL-2) receptor, IL-6, and other cytokines were determined during the acute phase of the HPS in 29 children and
F, Fujiwara, S, Hibi, S, Imashuku
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Hemophagocytic syndromes

Blood Reviews, 2007
Hemophagocytic syndromes (hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis, HLH) represent a severe hyperinflammatory condition with the cardinal symptoms prolonged fever, cytopenias, hepatosplenomegaly, and hemophagocytosis by activated, morphologically benign macrophages. Biochemical markers include elevated ferritin and triglycerides, and low fibrinogen.
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Murine Typhus and Hemophagocytic Syndrome

Journal of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology, 2018
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Iaria C., Colomba C., Di Carlo P., Scarlata F., Cascio A.   +4 more
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Hemophagocytic Lymphohistiocytosis/Hemophagocytic Syndromes

2013
A hemophagocytic syndrome is a systemic, non-neoplastic acute disease presenting with cytopenias and organ infiltration by histiocytes, frequently with hemophagocytosis, and is usually fatal if left untreated.
Roberto N. Miranda, Joseph D. Khoury, L. Jeffrey Medeiros   +2 more
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The Hemophagocytic Syndrome

Annals of Internal Medicine, 1991
To the Editors: The article on the acute lupus hemophagocytic syndrome (1) implies that the mechanism underlying the cytopenias is phagocytosis of the blood cells by macrophages.
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