Article
Hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis: diagnosis, pathophysiology, treatment, and future perspectives.
Annals of medicine - 1 Jan 2006
Verbsky James W, Grossman William J
Abstract excerpt
Hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis (HLH) is a rare life-threatening disease in which the immune system becomes overactive due to its inability to effectively respond to infections and/or shut down the immune response to such infections. The discovery of genetic defects in the secretory pathway of natural killer (NK) cells and cytotoxic T cells in some patients with this disease has raised important questions of...
Topics
- Animals
- DNA
- Diagnosis, Differential
- Humans
- Immunity, Cellular
- Immunologic Factors
- Killer Cells, Natural
- Lymphohistiocytosis, Hemophagocytic
- Membrane Glycoproteins
- Mutation
- Perforin
