title: [Severe acute hepatic failure and haemophagocytic syndrome: cause or consequence?].
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Département d'anesthésie-réanimation I, CHU Pellegrin, 33076 Bordeaux cedex, France. karine.nouette-gaulain@u-bordeaux2.fr
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Nouette-Gaulain
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Rossi
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Neau-Cransac
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Quinart
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Revel
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Sztark
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D001772:Blood Cell Count; D017809:Fatal Outcome; D015616:Histiocytosis, Non-Langerhans-Cell / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000628:therapy; D006801:Humans; D017254:Leukemic Infiltration / Q000473:pathology; D008099:Liver / Q000473:pathology; D017093:Liver Failure / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000628:therapy; D008111:Liver Function Tests; D008875:Middle Aged; D012121:Respiration, Artificial