Internal Medicine
Online ISSN : 1349-7235
Print ISSN : 0918-2918
ISSN-L : 0918-2918
CASE REPORTS
Lymphocyte-depleted Hodgkin Lymphoma Complicating Hemophagocytic Lymphohistiocytosis as an Initial Manifestation: A Case Report and Review of the Literature
Masao HagiharaMorihiro InoueJian HuaYasunobu Iwaki
Author information
JOURNAL OPEN ACCESS

2012 Volume 51 Issue 21 Pages 3067-3072

Details
Abstract

Hemophagocytic lymphohistocytosis (HLH) is commonly associated with infectious diseases or T/NK cell-lymphoma; however that with Hodgkin lymphoma (HL) was rarely reported. Herein, we describe a young male diagnosed with lymphocyte-depleted HL (LD-HL) complicated by HLH as an initial manifestation. He was given high-dose steroid therapy plus recombinant thrombomodulin, and subsequent ABVd (doxorubicin, bleomycin, vinblastine, dacarbazine) treatment. In spite of the achievement of a partial remission treated with one cycle of ABVd, he relapsed after 3 cycles. To our knowledge, the present case is very rare, and more intensive treatment might be needed for the long-term control of HLH-complicated HL.

Content from these authors
© 2012 by The Japanese Society of Internal Medicine
Previous article Next article
feedback
Top