RESUMEN
Se expone el caso de una mujer joven con diagnóstico de infección por el virus de inmunodeficiencia humana (VIH) y abandono de tratamiento antiretroviral, ingresada por cuadro febril y tos, con sospecha de tuberculosis miliar. Evoluciona durante su internación con pancitopenia y esplenomegalia, iniciándose investigación y diagnóstico precoz de síndrome hemofagocítico (SHF). Presenta evolución desfavorable y óbito debido a múltiples comorbilidades.
This is the case of a young woman who was diagnosed with a human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection and had stopped the antiretroviral therapy. She was admitted for fever and cough with suspicion of miliary tuberculosis. The patient evolved during her hospitalization to splenomegalic pancytopenia. An investigation started and there was an early diagnosis of hemophagocytic syndrome (HPS). The patients evolved unfavorably and died due to multiple co-morbilities.