Natural killer cell dysfunction: A common pathway in systemic-onset juvenile rheumatoid arthritis, macrophage activation syndrome, and hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis?

✍ Scribed by Alexei A. Grom

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 2004
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 243 KB
• Volume: 50
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0004-3591
• DOI: 10.1002/art.20198

✦ Synopsis

HLH ϭ hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis; MAS ϭ macrophage activation syndrome; CNS ϭ central nervous system; SGOT ϭ serum glutamate oxaloacetate transaminase; SGPT ϭ serum glutamate pyruvate transaminase; PT ϭ prothrombin time; PTT ϭ partial thromboplastin time. † Based on refs. 24 and 59. ‡ Based on refs. 13, 14, and 27.