Profound hyperferritinemia may not be specific for the diagnosis of haemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis (HLH) in Asian children

• Main Authors: Wen Qi Cher (Author), Ragavendra Kalyanasundaram (Author), Mei Yoke Chan (Author), Clement KM. Ho (Author), Prasad Iyer (Author), Rajat Bhattacharyya (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Elsevier, 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Profound hyperferritinaemia of >10,000 μg/L has been suggested to be highly specific for the diagnosis of paediatric haemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis (HLH) in western literature but similar studies are lacking in Asian children. We did a single-centre retrospective study analysing paediatric p...