Tuberculosis associated haemophagocytic syndrome: two cases with a favourable outcome.
Haemophagocytic syndrome is a heterogenous disease characterized by disordered macrophage activation associated with viral, bacterial or parasitic infection. The few reports of haemophagocytosis occurring in the presence of mycobacterial infection show a high mortality rate and we present two further cases notable for their favourable issue. Rapidity of diagnosis and immediate treatment could explain the avoidance of a fatal outcome.
Quiquandon
I
I
Département d'Hématologie, Hôpital Sud, Amiens, France.
Plantier
I
I
Hatron
P Y
PY
Chassaing
O
O
Bauters
F
F
Desablens
B
B
Devulder
B
B
D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D000890:Anti-Infective Agents / Q000627:therapeutic use; D015616:Histiocytosis, Non-Langerhans-Cell / Q000209:etiology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D014376:Tuberculosis / Q000150:complications* / Q000188:drug therapy
D000890:Anti-Infective Agents