EPSTEIN BARR VIRUS HEMOPHAGOCYTIC LYMPHOHISTIOCYTOSIS RELATED TO RITUXIMAB USE AND IMMUNOPATHOGENETIC INSIGHTS

Publication date: Available online 17 October 2016
Source:Pathology - Research and Practice
Author(s): Sotirios G. Papageorgiou, Sotirios Tsiodras, Georgios Siakallis, Efthimia Bazani, Aris Spathis, Garyfalia Poulakou, Penelope Korkolopoulou, Ioannis Panayiotides, Vasiliki Pappa
Anti-CD20-based chemo-immunotherapeutic regimens have been suggested to assist in the management of Epstein-Barr virus (EBV)-induced hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis (HLH) and EBV-associated post-transplant lymphoproliferative disorders (EBV-PTLD), by reducing EBV viral load and EBV-induced inflammation.Herein we report a fatal EBV-related HLH in the context of Hodgkin lymphoma (HL)-like Richter's transformation of B chronic lymphocytic leukemia (B-CLL), two months after rituximab treatment. The complex balance between EBV driven T-cell stimulation and immunosuppressive therapy in the context of multiple immune deficits is discussed.



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