id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-261251-ylvqxpba Ansuini, Valentina Debate around infection-dependent hemophagocytic syndrome in paediatrics 2013-01-16 .txt text/plain 4647 239 22 BACKGROUND: Hemophagocytic syndrome (HPS) is clinically defined as a combination of fever, liver dysfunction, coagulation abnormalities, pancytopenia, progressive macrophage proliferation throughout the reticuloendothelial system, and cytokine over-production, and may be primary or secondary to infectious, auto-immune, and tumoral diseases. In the case of severe EBV-related HPS, the introduction of immuno-chemotherapy and, if necessary, allogenic stem cell transplantation has radically changed the history and prognosis of the disease: in such cases, the optimal treatment strategy can be centred on immunosuppressive medications that inhibit overactive T and NK cell responses (i.e. corticosteroids, cyclosporine A, intravenous immunoglobulin, anti-thymocyte globulins, etoposide, rituximab, and plasma or blood exchange transfusions) [38, 39] . Clinicopathological study of severe chronic active Epstein-Barr virus infection that developed in association with lymphoproliferative disorder and/or hemophagocytic syndrome Quantitative analysis of cell-free Epstein-Barr virus genome copy number in patients with EBV-associated hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis Penicilliosis-associated hemophagocytic syndrome in a human immunodeficiency virus-infected child: the first case report in children ./cache/cord-261251-ylvqxpba.txt ./txt/cord-261251-ylvqxpba.txt