Diagnostic challenges in a child with familial hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis type 3 (FHLH3) presenting with fulminant neurological disease

James D. Weisfeld-Adams,Yitzchak Frank,Vinod Havalad,Joanne M. Hojsak,Roberto Posada,Shipra Kaicker,Birte Wistinghausen

Diagnostic challenges in a child with familial hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis type 3 (FHLH3) presenting with fulminant neurological disease

2009

James D. Weisfeld-Adams
Yitzchak Frank
Vinod Havalad
Joanne M. Hojsak
Roberto Posada
Shipra Kaicker
Birte Wistinghausen

Background Familial hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis (FHLH) is an autosomal recessively inherited multisystem disease characterized by fever, rash, splenomegaly, cytopenias, and variable central nervous system (CNS) manifestations.

Keywords:

Rash
Hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis
Fulminant
Acute disseminated encephalomyelitis
Familial Hemophagocytic Lymphohistiocytosis
Pathology
Disease
Dominance (genetics)
Medicine
Demyelinating disease
Neurosurgery
multisystem disease

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