[Severe acute hepatic failure and haemophagocytic syndrome: cause or consequence?].
Haemophagocytic syndrome corresponds to an unconnected macrophagic activity with haemophagocytosis. We report the case of a haemophagocytic syndrome in a 49-year-old woman with initially a severe acute hepatic failure. This syndrome is probably underestimated in ICU patients. Haemophagocytic syndrome should be suspected in patients with fever and jaundice without infection.
Nouette-Gaulain
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Département d'anesthésie-réanimation I, CHU Pellegrin, 33076 Bordeaux cedex, France. karine.nouette-gaulain@u-bordeaux2.fr
Rossi
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Neau-Cransac
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Quinart
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Revel
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Sztark
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