A case of hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis in a hemodialysis patient with coronavirus disease 2019

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During the treatment of a patient on hemodialysis with severe coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), the patient was weaned from extracorporeal membrane oxygenation, which was used to treat severe COVID-19 pneumonia. However, the patient's condition worsened after the peak infection phase of COVID-19 because of acute respiratory distress syndrome with suspected hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis (HLH). After a bone marrow biopsy confirmed the diagnosis, methylprednisolone pulse therapy, followed by combination therapy (including oral prednisolone and cyclosporine) was immediately administered, and the patient survived. Because HLH can occur a month or more after the onset of COVID-19, even if the viral load is reduced to the point of being undetectable by reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction, it can be considered to correspond to the "post-acute COVID-19 syndrome," which has recently been proposed. Early intervention is necessary, because HLH can be fatal. Therefore, it is important to know that HLH can occur at any stage of COVID-19 and to pay attention to the patient's progress over time, including checking the HScore.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2023

Erschienen:

2023

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:12

Enthalten in:

CEN case reports - 12(2023), 4 vom: 02. Nov., Seite 390-396

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Kaneko, Satoru [VerfasserIn]
Inoue, Tsutomu [VerfasserIn]
Tarumoto, Norihito [VerfasserIn]
Haga, Yoshiyuki [VerfasserIn]
Yokota, Kazuhiro [VerfasserIn]
Yamaguchi, Hiroshi [VerfasserIn]
Okada, Hirokazu [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

COVID-19
Case Reports
HScore
Hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis
Hemophagocytic syndrome
Journal Article

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Date Completed 02.11.2023

Date Revised 13.11.2023

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1007/s13730-023-00776-9

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM353701602