Well. Like I was saying, you need to think about how demyelination could affect the entire body. Unfortunately, I really must have missed this part of the conversation, or I wasn't paying attention; I don't know, But if I knew then what I know now, I could have saved myself a lot of pain and …
Chemo
So as you read my thoughts on chemo- they almost seem trivial. There is so much that an individual goes through when going through chemo. I can only speak for myself, but I feel that some of my co-chemo takers would agree with some of my statements. It's not just physical, but it's emotional and …
HLH- lesson one
I am a decently smart person and this diagnosis is difficult to understand in its pathology. I will try to explain it the best that I can. Let's look at the name, it tells a lot: Hemophagocytic- latin for "eating blood" Lymphohistiocytosis- lymph- part of the immune system, histio- histiocytes- the type of cell …
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Pathology report from Pittsburgh: The enlarged spleen with activated macrophages, and fairly extensive erythrophagocytosis, with a high intermixed content of CD3+ lymphocytes is a pattern seen in hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis (HLH) and other forms of macrophage activation syndrome, which is correlated with the patient's history of fevers and cytopenias. Tendencies of HLH- hemophagyocytic lymphohistiocytosis. Hard to …
