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Prolonged course of familial hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis.
Journal of pediatric hematology/oncology - 1 Dec 2006
Steinberg Orna, Yacobovich Joanne, Dgany Orly, Kodman Yona, Livni Gilat, Rachmel Avinoam, Stein Jerry, Yaniv Isaac, Tamary Hannah
Abstract excerpt
Familial hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis is usually diagnosed in the first 2 years of life and, if untreated, is rapidly fatal. We describe a 10-year-old boy with a 9-year history of prolonged fever and progressive hepatosplenomegaly who was diagnosed as having hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis 2, being homozygote to a previously described mutation in the PRF1 gene, and cured by the HLH-2004 protocol and...
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