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Progressive and disseminated histoplasma infection and hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis in an immunocompetent adult

Hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis (HLH) in adults is a life‐threatening underdiagnosed disorder that complicates different infectious syndromes and overlaps with sepsis. No guidelines are available for the management of HLH in adults. A high index of suspicion is required in patients with dissemina...

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Autores principales: Dousa, Khalid M., De la Hoz, Alejandro, Church, Elizabeth, Onger, Tiffany, Perez, Federico, Saade, Elie
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6509665/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31110713
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.2079
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author Dousa, Khalid M.
De la Hoz, Alejandro
Church, Elizabeth
Onger, Tiffany
Perez, Federico
Saade, Elie
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description Hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis (HLH) in adults is a life‐threatening underdiagnosed disorder that complicates different infectious syndromes and overlaps with sepsis. No guidelines are available for the management of HLH in adults. A high index of suspicion is required in patients with disseminated histoplasmosis.
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spelling pubmed-65096652019-05-20 Progressive and disseminated histoplasma infection and hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis in an immunocompetent adult Dousa, Khalid M. De la Hoz, Alejandro Church, Elizabeth Onger, Tiffany Perez, Federico Saade, Elie Clin Case Rep Case Reports Hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis (HLH) in adults is a life‐threatening underdiagnosed disorder that complicates different infectious syndromes and overlaps with sepsis. No guidelines are available for the management of HLH in adults. A high index of suspicion is required in patients with disseminated histoplasmosis. John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2019-03-27 /pmc/articles/PMC6509665/ /pubmed/31110713 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.2079 Text en © 2019 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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Dousa, Khalid M.
De la Hoz, Alejandro
Church, Elizabeth
Onger, Tiffany
Perez, Federico
Saade, Elie
Progressive and disseminated histoplasma infection and hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis in an immunocompetent adult
title Progressive and disseminated histoplasma infection and hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis in an immunocompetent adult
title_full Progressive and disseminated histoplasma infection and hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis in an immunocompetent adult
title_fullStr Progressive and disseminated histoplasma infection and hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis in an immunocompetent adult
title_full_unstemmed Progressive and disseminated histoplasma infection and hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis in an immunocompetent adult
title_short Progressive and disseminated histoplasma infection and hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis in an immunocompetent adult
title_sort progressive and disseminated histoplasma infection and hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis in an immunocompetent adult
topic Case Reports
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6509665/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31110713
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.2079
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