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  1. Fadilah SAW, Raymond AA, Cheong SK, Amir MAL
    Med J Malaysia, 2001 Dec;56(4):503-7.
    PMID: 12014773
    A fulminant clinical presentation with high fever and hepatosplenomegaly, together with a course of worsening pancytopenia, coagulopathy and liver failure, is suggestive of the haem syndrome (HPS). Bone marrow examination is diagnostic. We present 3 cases of HPS associated with different aetiologies including acute Ebstein Barr virus infection, T cell lymphoma, and malignant histiocytosis. In all the cases, the diagnosis was made late and the patients succumbed before definitive therapy could be administered.
    Matched MeSH terms: Histiocytosis, Non-Langerhans-Cell/mortality*; Histiocytosis, Non-Langerhans-Cell/pathology*; Histiocytosis, Non-Langerhans-Cell/therapy
  2. Hoh MC, Lin HP
    Med J Malaysia, 1997 Jun;52(2):146-50.
    PMID: 10968072
    Haemophagocytic Lymphohistiocytosis (HLH) is a rare clinical illness with a high mortality. There are reported effective treatment and a favourable outcome if diagnosed early. Five cases of childhood non-familial HLH seen over a 3 year period in our hospital are presented. The diagnosis was not suspected in the referring hospitals even after a bone marrow biopsy examination in two cases. Delay in referral was between 2 weeks to 2 months. A viral trigger was detected in only two cases. There were two deaths. Cause of death in both cases were cytomegalovirus pneumonitis and disseminated intravascular coagulopathy. Respond to treatment was better if started earlier. One case spontaneously resolved. Earlier diagnosis will lead to prompt treatment and a better outcome.
    Matched MeSH terms: Histiocytosis, Non-Langerhans-Cell/diagnosis*; Histiocytosis, Non-Langerhans-Cell/therapy
  3. Yap FBB
    Dermatol. Online J., 2009;15(1):2.
    PMID: 19281707
    A 36-year-old Malaysian woman with erosive arthritis presented with multiple asymptomatic skin colored papulonodules on the hands, elbows, knees, ears, and feet; many macules, papules, and plaques were photodistributed. Progressive, erosive arthritis began about 18 months after the onset of skin involvement. Initially the patient was diagnosed to have dermatomyositis due to her skin findings, but later proved to have multicentric reticulohistiocytosis based on the typical histopathological features of histiocytic multinucleated giant cells with eosinophilic ground glass cytoplasm on skin biopsy. Workup for associated diseases including malignancies was negative. Her skin lesions and joint pain responded to treatment with methotrexate and prednisolone.
    Matched MeSH terms: Histiocytosis, Non-Langerhans-Cell/pathology*
  4. Gan GG, Eow GI, Teh A, Ng SC, Sangkar JV
    Med J Malaysia, 2004 Mar;59(1):100-2.
    PMID: 15535343
    Familial hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis is a disorder which presents with fever, pancytopenia, liver dysfunction and also an increase in non-malignant histiocytes with prominent hemophagocytosis in various organs. It is usually difficult to distinguish from other hemophagocytic syndrome in the absence of family history. It rarely manifests in adults. Chemotherapy is usually indicated. Here, we report the occurrence of this disorder in two brothers in their twenties.
    Matched MeSH terms: Histiocytosis, Non-Langerhans-Cell/diagnosis*; Histiocytosis, Non-Langerhans-Cell/drug therapy; Histiocytosis, Non-Langerhans-Cell/genetics*
  5. Ramanathan M, Duraisamy G
    Ann Acad Med Singap, 1991 Nov;20(6):803-4.
    PMID: 1803975
    Virus associated haemophagocytic syndrome (VAHS), a distinct clinico-pathologic entity, is characterised by systemic proliferation of non-neoplastic histotiocytes showing haemophagocytosis resulting in blood cytopaenia. It has been described in relation to several viruses earlier. Here we describe a young girl who developed this reactive process during the course of dengue haemorrhagic fever (DHF).
    Matched MeSH terms: Histiocytosis, Non-Langerhans-Cell/etiology*
  6. Leong CF, Cheong SK, Hamidah NH, Ainoon O, Kannaheswary Y
    Malays J Pathol, 1998 Dec;20(2):103-8.
    PMID: 10879271
    A 40-day-old baby girl presented with intermittent fever, lymphadenopathy, massive hepatosplenomegaly, progressive pancytopenia and features of disseminated intravascular coagulopathy. A bone marrow aspiration was performed and showed florid histiocytic proliferation with marked hemophagocytosis. Based on the diagnostic guideline for Hemophagocytic Lymphohistiocytosis proposed by the Familial Hemophagocytic Lymphohistiocytosis Study Group of Histiocyte Society, this patient has fulfilled most of the criteria. We have also found that serum ferritin and lactate dehydrogenase to be very high in this patient. It remains uncertain whether the disorder is reactive or neoplastic.
    Matched MeSH terms: Histiocytosis, Non-Langerhans-Cell/blood*; Histiocytosis, Non-Langerhans-Cell/pathology
  7. Ramanathan M, Karim N
    Med J Malaysia, 1993 Jun;48(2):240-3.
    PMID: 8350805
    This report deals with a young man who developed features of haemophogocytosis during the course of typhoid fever. The pertinent clinical and laboratory features of typhoid-associated haemophagocytosis are discussed. The need for blood component replacement therapy in addition to specific anti-microbials to treat haemophagocytosis complicating typhoid fever is stressed.
    Matched MeSH terms: Histiocytosis, Non-Langerhans-Cell/diagnosis; Histiocytosis, Non-Langerhans-Cell/etiology*
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