Acute fulminant myocarditis (AFM) is characterized by sudden, severe cardiac inflammation causing hemodynamic instability or arrhythmia. 1 Currently, no approved medical therapy exists for AFM. Janus ...

Langerhans cell histiocytosis (LCH) is a rare hematologic disease that primarily affects children and adolescents. 1 It is characterized by an accumulation of histiocytes (macrophages and ...

A 33-year-old Italian woman with a past history of seizure disorder who had been taking phenytoin for 1 year, presented to our hospital because she experienced intermittent fevers for 3 weeks. The ...

Rosai–Dorfman disease (RDD) is an unusual, non-malignant proliferative disorder involving non-Langerhans cell histiocytes, characterized by a wide range of clinical presentations and distinctive ...

Kikuchi-Fujimoto disease, or histiocytic necrotizing lymphadenitis, is a relatively new disease entity seen in the U.S. that primarily affects young women. By 1993 approximately 200 cases had been ...

The mother of a three-month-old baby girl diagnosed with a rare blood disorder is urging people to sign the stem cell register in a bid to save her daughter's life. Doctors initially suspected ...

All patients had numerous sea-blue histiocytes in aspirated specimens of bone marrow, demonstrated by either Wright's or Giemsa stain. This histiocyte is a large cell, up to 20 μ, in diameter.

Histopathological analysis of the specimen revealed histiocytes with eosinophilic cytoplasm and immunohistochemical positivity for S-100 protein, CD-1a, CD-68, and CD-34, which was of LCH. Furthermore ...

There are two main types of rare blood disorders: myeloproliferative and lymphoproliferative. Treatment depends on the type but can involve chemotherapy or stem cell transplants.

However, increased histiocytes, as well as bone marrow fibrosis, was associated with worse overall survival. Dr. Yeung explained that this potential contradiction with histiocytes may be due to the ...

Certain white blood cells — histiocytes and lymphocytes — attack your other blood cells. These abnormal blood cells collect in your spleen and liver, causing these organs to enlarge. What causes HLH?