High serum ferritin alone as a predictor of mortality and hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis

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We report here utility of high serum ferritin alone as a predictor of mortality and diagnosis of hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis (HLH). We compared mortality in patients with high serum ferritin >5000 ng/mL versus <5000 ng/mL and looked for presence of HLH. Mortality was significantly higher (P-value .0048) in patients with serum ferritin levels >5000 ug/dL. Of 21 patients with high serum ferritin, a median of three criteria were fulfilled to diagnose HLH. All patients had features of immune-activation, and 76.2% patients had features of immune-pathology favoring diagnosis of HLH. Serum ferritin can aid in prediction of mortality and help in the early diagnosis of HLH.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2021

Erschienen:

2021

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:2

Enthalten in:

EJHaem - 2(2021), 1 vom: 11. Feb., Seite 136-138

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Kohli, Shruti [VerfasserIn]
Chadha, Ritu [VerfasserIn]
Rastogi, Neha [VerfasserIn]
Yadav, Satya Prakash [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Ferritin
Hemophagocytic lympho histiocytosis
Journal Article
Mortality

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Date Revised 19.07.2022

published: Electronic-eCollection

Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE

doi:

10.1002/jha2.153

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM343663112