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Hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis in the setting of HELLP Syndrome

Hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis (HLH) is a life‐threatening hyper activation of the immune system. Rare cases associated with HELLP syndrome and other similar conditions in pregnancy have been reported. Despite the improved survival rates with etoposide and dexamethasone‐based regimens, HLH remai...

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Autores principales: Sarkissian, Sarmen, Khan, Yasir, Farrell, Daniel, Constable, David, Brem, Elizabeth
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6293182/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30564350
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.1828
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author Sarkissian, Sarmen
Khan, Yasir
Farrell, Daniel
Constable, David
Brem, Elizabeth
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description Hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis (HLH) is a life‐threatening hyper activation of the immune system. Rare cases associated with HELLP syndrome and other similar conditions in pregnancy have been reported. Despite the improved survival rates with etoposide and dexamethasone‐based regimens, HLH remains a challenging disease. Experience in pregnant patients is exceedingly rare.
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spelling pubmed-62931822018-12-18 Hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis in the setting of HELLP Syndrome Sarkissian, Sarmen Khan, Yasir Farrell, Daniel Constable, David Brem, Elizabeth Clin Case Rep Case Reports Hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis (HLH) is a life‐threatening hyper activation of the immune system. Rare cases associated with HELLP syndrome and other similar conditions in pregnancy have been reported. Despite the improved survival rates with etoposide and dexamethasone‐based regimens, HLH remains a challenging disease. Experience in pregnant patients is exceedingly rare. John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2018-11-05 /pmc/articles/PMC6293182/ /pubmed/30564350 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.1828 Text en © 2018 The Authors. Clinical Case Reports published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. This is an open access article under the terms of the http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Sarkissian, Sarmen
Khan, Yasir
Farrell, Daniel
Constable, David
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Hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis in the setting of HELLP Syndrome
title Hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis in the setting of HELLP Syndrome
title_full Hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis in the setting of HELLP Syndrome
title_fullStr Hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis in the setting of HELLP Syndrome
title_full_unstemmed Hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis in the setting of HELLP Syndrome
title_short Hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis in the setting of HELLP Syndrome
title_sort hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis in the setting of hellp syndrome
topic Case Reports
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6293182/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30564350
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.1828
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