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[Hemophagocytic syndrome in two elderly men]
[Rinsho Ketsueki] the Japanese Journal of Clinical Hematology
|February 1, 1990
Abstract:
Case 1: A 68-year-old male, who was admitted to our hospital because of massive intestinal bleeding, died 1 day after admission. Case 2: An 80-year-old male, who was admitted to our hospital because of a loss of consciousness, died 4 days after admission. In both cases prodromic infection was not detected. At autopsy, phagocytosis of RBC and WBC by histiocytes was shown markedly in the spleen in case 1 and in the bone marrow in case 2. So diagnosis of virus-associated hemophagocytic syndrome was made. It might be related to some underlying immunologic derangement, because both cases were in advanced age.