Hemophagocytic Lymphohistiocytosis Associated with Natural T-cell Leukemia

Hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis (HLH) is a rare and life-threatening syndrome of excessive immune activation. It can be triggered by a variety of events that disrupt immune homeostasis, infection being the most common of them. We report a case of a 36-year-old male diagnosed with HLH associated w...

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Autores principales: Ricaurte, Frank R, Kewan, Tariq, Chadalavada, Pravallika, Misbah, Seema, Daw, Hamed
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2019
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Pathology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6476604/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31058001
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.4107
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author Ricaurte, Frank R
Kewan, Tariq
Chadalavada, Pravallika
Misbah, Seema
Daw, Hamed
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description Hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis (HLH) is a rare and life-threatening syndrome of excessive immune activation. It can be triggered by a variety of events that disrupt immune homeostasis, infection being the most common of them. We report a case of a 36-year-old male diagnosed with HLH associated with natural T-cell leukemia. The purpose of this report is to call attention to the clinical presentation, diagnosis, and treatment of HLH.
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spelling pubmed-64766042019-05-05 Hemophagocytic Lymphohistiocytosis Associated with Natural T-cell Leukemia Ricaurte, Frank R Kewan, Tariq Chadalavada, Pravallika Misbah, Seema Daw, Hamed Cureus Pathology Hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis (HLH) is a rare and life-threatening syndrome of excessive immune activation. It can be triggered by a variety of events that disrupt immune homeostasis, infection being the most common of them. We report a case of a 36-year-old male diagnosed with HLH associated with natural T-cell leukemia. The purpose of this report is to call attention to the clinical presentation, diagnosis, and treatment of HLH. Cureus 2019-02-20 /pmc/articles/PMC6476604/ /pubmed/31058001 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.4107 Text en Copyright © 2019, Ricaurte et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Hemophagocytic Lymphohistiocytosis Associated with Natural T-cell Leukemia
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title_short Hemophagocytic Lymphohistiocytosis Associated with Natural T-cell Leukemia
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