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- Title
Infection-associated hemophagocytic syndrome in a diabetic patient undergoing chronic hemodialysis.
- Authors
Wada, Yoko; Sato, Maki; Saito, Akihiko; Gejyo, Fumitake
- Abstract
Hemophagocytic syndrome (HPS) is an uncommon but severe illness associated with a variety of infections, malignant tumors, and autoimmune diseases. We report a case of infection-associated HPS in a patient receiving chronic hemodialysis. Peptostreptococcus-induced sepsis and abscess formation in the left iliopsoas muscle led to the onset of infection-associated HPS in this patient. The patient had diabetes mellitus and end-stage renal disease, and it is likely that immunological dysfunctions from these disorders played a part in the onset of both severe bacterial infections and HPS.
- Subjects
SYNDROMES; PEOPLE with diabetes; HEMODIALYSIS; DIABETES; SEPSIS; KIDNEY diseases; BACTERIAL diseases
- Publication
Clinical & Experimental Nephrology, 2003, Vol 7, Issue 2, p163
- ISSN
1342-1751
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s10157-003-0230-6