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. 2014 May 28:385–393. doi: 10.1007/978-1-4471-6416-6_26

Table 26.1.

Diagnostic guidelines for Hemophagocytic Lymphohistiocytosis (HLH)

The diagnosis of HLH can be established by fulfilling either or both of the two criteria below
 1. A molecular diagnosis consisted with HLH
 2. Diagnostic criteria (five out of the eight criteria must be met)
  (a) Fever
  (b) Splenomegaly
  (c) Cytopenias (affecting at least two of three lineages in the peripheral blood)
   (i) Hemoglobin <90 g/L (in infants < 4 weeks: hemoglobin <100 g/L)
   (ii) Platelets <100 × 109/L
   (iii) Neutrophils <1.0 × 109/L
  (d) Hypertriglyceridemia and/or hypofibrinogenemia
   (i) Fasting triglycerides ≥3.0 mmol/L (i.e., ≥ 265 mg/dl)
   (ii) Fibrinogen ≤1.5 g/L
  (e) Hemophagocytosis in bone marrow, spleen, lymph nodes, or cerebrospinal fluid
  (f) Low or absent NK-cell activity
  (g) Ferritin ≥500 μg/L
  (h) Soluble CD25 (soluble IL-2 receptor) above normal limits for age