Sindrome hemofagocitico y salmonelosis en un paciente con hemogobinopatia S.C. / Hemophagocitic syndrome and salmonellosis in a patient with sickle cell anemia

RESUMEN

Se informa el caso de un joven de 14 anos con hemoglobinopatia SC que tuvo un sindrome hemofagocitico (SH) secundario a salmonelosis. Se discuten las caracteristicas de este sindrome y su diagnostico diferencial. Se hace enfasis en la importancia de considerarlo entre las posibilidades diagnosticas dada la frecuencia en Colombia de las infecciones que pueden desencadenarlo, a saber tuberculosis, salmonelosis y leishmaniasis

ABSTRACT

We report a case of hemophagocytlc syndrome occurrlng In a 14 year old boy with SC hemoglobinopathy and salmonellosis; the clinical features of the syndrome are discussed; the need to consider this syndrome in the differential diagnosis is emphazised, since several of the infections that may lead to It- tuberculosis, salmonellosis, lelsmaniasis are frequently found in colombian patients