Macrophage Activation Syndrome
"Macrophage Activation Syndrome" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
A serious complication of childhood systemic inflammatory disorders that is thought to be caused by excessive activation and proliferation of T-LYMPHOCYTES and MACROPHAGES. It is seen predominantly in children with systemic onset JUVENILE IDIOPATHIC ARTHRITIS.
| Descriptor ID |
D055501
|
| MeSH Number(s) |
C20.683.515.800
|
| Concept/Terms |
|
Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more general than "Macrophage Activation Syndrome".
Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more specific than "Macrophage Activation Syndrome".
This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Macrophage Activation Syndrome" by people in this website by year, and whether "Macrophage Activation Syndrome" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
To see the data from this visualization as text,
click here.
| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
|---|
| 2010 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2017 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2018 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2021 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
To return to the timeline,
click here.
Below are the most recent publications written about "Macrophage Activation Syndrome" by people in Profiles.
-
Felix JC, Sheinin YM, Suster D, Ronen N, Ratiani M, Vanden Heuvel T, Winge E, Patton MD, Rau MJ, Ge L, Sun Y, Udhane SS, Langenheim JF, Rui H. Diffuse interstitial pneumonia-like/macrophage activation syndrome-like changes in patients with COVID-19 correlate with length of illness. Ann Diagn Pathol. 2021 Aug; 53:151744.
-
Signoff JK, Fitzgerald JC, Teachey DT, Balamuth F, Weiss SL. Hypofibrinogenemia Is Associated With Poor Outcome and Secondary Hemophagocytic Lymphohistiocytosis/Macrophage Activation Syndrome in Pediatric Severe Sepsis. Pediatr Crit Care Med. 2018 05; 19(5):397-405.
-
Carcillo JA, Podd B, Aneja R, Weiss SL, Hall MW, Cornell TT, Shanley TP, Doughty LA, Nguyen TC. Pathophysiology of Pediatric Multiple Organ Dysfunction Syndrome. Pediatr Crit Care Med. 2017 Mar; 18(3_suppl Suppl 1):S32-S45.
-
El-Bitar MK, Muwakkit SA, Hourani R, Abboud MR, Saab R, Dabbagh O. Severe cerebral vaso-occlusive disease in macrophage activation syndrome. Pediatr Neurol. 2010 Apr; 42(4):283-6.