1. Clinical and laboratory features, treatment, and outcomes of macrophage activation syndrome in 80 children: a multi-center study in China
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Hua-Song Zeng, Li Guo, Li Sun, Meiping Lu, Hui-Hui Ma, Yun Zhu, Lixia Zou, Ji-Hong Xiao, Si-Rui Yang, Yi-Ping Xu, and Hai-Guo Yu
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Male ,musculoskeletal diseases ,China ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Adolescent ,Arthritis ,Mucocutaneous Lymph Node Syndrome ,Gastroenterology ,03 medical and health sciences ,chemistry.chemical_compound ,0302 clinical medicine ,Tocilizumab ,Adrenal Cortex Hormones ,030225 pediatrics ,Lactate dehydrogenase ,Internal medicine ,Humans ,Medicine ,030212 general & internal medicine ,Child ,Connective Tissue Diseases ,Retrospective Studies ,Biological Products ,biology ,medicine.diagnostic_test ,business.industry ,Macrophage Activation Syndrome ,fungi ,Infant ,medicine.disease ,Connective tissue disease ,Arthritis, Juvenile ,body regions ,Ferritin ,chemistry ,Child, Preschool ,Macrophage activation syndrome ,Erythrocyte sedimentation rate ,Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health ,biology.protein ,Female ,lipids (amino acids, peptides, and proteins) ,Kawasaki disease ,business ,Biomarkers ,hormones, hormone substitutes, and hormone antagonists - Abstract
Macrophage activation syndrome (MAS) is a major cause of morbidity and mortality in pediatric rheumatology. We aimed to further understand the clinical features, treatment, and outcome of MAS in China. A multi-center cohort study was performed in seven hospitals in China from 2012 to 2018. Eighty patients with MAS were enrolled, including 53 cases with systemic juvenile idiopathic arthritis (SJIA-MAS), 10 cases of Kawasaki disease (KD-MAS), and 17 cases of connective tissue disease (CTD-MAS). The clinical and laboratory data were collected before (pre-), at onset, and during full-blown stages of MAS. We compared the data among the SJIA-MAS, KD-MAS, and CTD-MAS subjects. 51.2% of patients developed MAS when the underlying disease was first diagnosed. In patients with SJIA, 22.6% (12/53) were found to have hypotension before the onset of SJIA-MAS. These patients were also found to have significantly increased aspartate aminotransferase (AST) and lactate dehydrogenase (LDH), as well as decreased albumin (P
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- 2019