1. Severe Fever with Thrombocytopenia Syndrome Presenting with Hemophagocytic Lymphohistiocytosis
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Ji Hun Lim, Jae-Bum Jun, Won Ja Lee, Sun Whan Park, Jongmin Lee, Hawk Kim, and Gyeongmin Jeong
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0301 basic medicine ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis ,Pediatrics ,business.industry ,030106 microbiology ,Case Report ,Disease ,medicine.disease ,Severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome ,SFTS bunyavirus ,03 medical and health sciences ,Infectious Diseases ,hemic and lymphatic diseases ,medicine ,Bunyavirus ,Pharmacology (medical) ,Intensive care medicine ,business - Abstract
Severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome (SFTS) is an emerging tick-borne disease caused by the newly discovered SFTS Bunyavirus, and there have been no case reports of SFTS patients presenting with hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis (HLH) in the English literature. We report a case of SFTS presenting with HLH in a 73-year-old immunocompetent male farmer. Although the patient had poor prognostic factors for SFTS, such as old age and central nervous system symptoms, he recovered fully with supportive care.
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- 2016