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[Hemophagocytic syndrome: report of 4 cases]
Besma Ben Dhaou Hmaidi1, Fatma Derbali, Fatma Boussema
1Hopital Habib Thameur, Tunis, Tunisie.
Background:
Hemophagocytic syndrome (HPS) is a rare but potentially fatal disease. The diagnosis is based on the combination of clinical and biological signs, requiring histological or cytological research hemophagocytosis and exhaustive etiological investigation.
Aim:
To report four cases of the HPS in an internal medicine department.
Cases Report:
We report four cases of HPS associated with Still's disease in two cases, with Sjogren syndrome in one case and a severe sepsis in one case. There are three women and one man. The mean age was 34.75 years, with extremes of 21 to 50 years. In all cases, patients were hospitalized for fever of unknown origin. The etiologic research of this fever remained negative. In all cases, patients validated criteria of HPS confirmed by cytological studies. The treatment was based on corticosteroids in all cases and immunosuppressant in one case. The evolution was favorable in two cases and fatal in two cases.
Conclusion:
HPS is a serious, often overlooked, may affect the prognosis and complicating various infectious, neoplastic or autoimmune diseases.
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