An Elderly Patient with Hemophagocytic Syndrome due to Severe Mycoplasma Pneumonia with Marked Hypercytokinemia

Ryusuke Mizukane,Jun-ichi Kadota,Toshiyuki Yamaguchi,Takakazu Kiya,Hiromichi Fukushima,Masao Nakatomi,Shigeru Kohno

An Elderly Patient with Hemophagocytic Syndrome due to Severe Mycoplasma Pneumonia with Marked Hypercytokinemia

2002

Ryusuke Mizukane
Jun-ichi Kadota
Toshiyuki Yamaguchi
Takakazu Kiya
Hiromichi Fukushima
Masao Nakatomi
Shigeru Kohno

We present an extremely rare case of hemophagocytic syndrome (HPS) induced by fulminant Mycoplasma pneumoniae (Mp) pneumonia in an elderly adult. Erythrocytopenia

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Respiratory disease
Histiocytosis
Mycoplasma pneumoniae
Pathology
Fulminant
Mycoplasmataceae
Complication
Lung
Mycoplasma pneumonia
Medicine

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