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1Department of Pediatric Hematology, Gazi University Faculty of Medicine.
Abstract:
We report 2 children with distinct causes of polycythemia, 1 from systemic capillary leak syndrome (SCLS) and the other from protein-losing enteropathy (PLE) caused by CD55 deficiency. There is only a single case series about polycythemia in children with SCLS, but none on polycythemia in children with PLE. We present a 10-year-old girl with hypoalbuminemia, polycythemia, and edema who died as a result of an SCLS attack and a 1-year-old girl with PLE who was successfully treated with eculizumab. Our experience suggests that hematologists should be alert for SCLS and PLE in children with relative polycythemia.
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