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Unusual Presentation of Hemophagocytic Lymphohistiocytosis in a Kidney Transplant Patient

We are presenting a case of a middle-aged woman with history of remote kidney transplantation who had multiple admissions for septic shock-like picture, recurrent fever, and hypotension. Her shock manifestation would resolve after stress dose steroid administration and less than 24 hours of vasopres...

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Autores principales: Yang, Danwen, Thamcharoen, Natanong, Marcus, Chelsea, Varkaris, Andreas, Aird, William, Khankin, Eliyahu V., Cardarelli, Francesca
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6431471/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30984439
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2019/3682378
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author Yang, Danwen
Thamcharoen, Natanong
Marcus, Chelsea
Varkaris, Andreas
Aird, William
Khankin, Eliyahu V.
Cardarelli, Francesca
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Thamcharoen, Natanong
Marcus, Chelsea
Varkaris, Andreas
Aird, William
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Cardarelli, Francesca
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description We are presenting a case of a middle-aged woman with history of remote kidney transplantation who had multiple admissions for septic shock-like picture, recurrent fever, and hypotension. Her shock manifestation would resolve after stress dose steroid administration and less than 24 hours of vasopressor administration. Initially, extensive workup was performed without revealing etiology. Eventually, a bone marrow biopsy was carried out leading to the diagnosis of hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis, most likely related to recent cytomegalovirus infection.
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spelling pubmed-64314712019-04-14 Unusual Presentation of Hemophagocytic Lymphohistiocytosis in a Kidney Transplant Patient Yang, Danwen Thamcharoen, Natanong Marcus, Chelsea Varkaris, Andreas Aird, William Khankin, Eliyahu V. Cardarelli, Francesca Case Rep Transplant Case Report We are presenting a case of a middle-aged woman with history of remote kidney transplantation who had multiple admissions for septic shock-like picture, recurrent fever, and hypotension. Her shock manifestation would resolve after stress dose steroid administration and less than 24 hours of vasopressor administration. Initially, extensive workup was performed without revealing etiology. Eventually, a bone marrow biopsy was carried out leading to the diagnosis of hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis, most likely related to recent cytomegalovirus infection. Hindawi 2019-03-10 /pmc/articles/PMC6431471/ /pubmed/30984439 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2019/3682378 Text en Copyright © 2019 Danwen Yang et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Yang, Danwen
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Khankin, Eliyahu V.
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Unusual Presentation of Hemophagocytic Lymphohistiocytosis in a Kidney Transplant Patient
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title_full Unusual Presentation of Hemophagocytic Lymphohistiocytosis in a Kidney Transplant Patient
title_fullStr Unusual Presentation of Hemophagocytic Lymphohistiocytosis in a Kidney Transplant Patient
title_full_unstemmed Unusual Presentation of Hemophagocytic Lymphohistiocytosis in a Kidney Transplant Patient
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title_sort unusual presentation of hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis in a kidney transplant patient
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6431471/
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2019/3682378
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