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55. Macrophage Activation Syndrome

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The Importance of Blood Tests for MAS

In general, patients who have true HLA-Chimp MAS is much higher than 500. But I think the key really is that they're going to have fever and it's really kind of out of proportion to what you would expect. And there are other clues too, so like a falling complete blood cell count. Very high inflammatory markers, like syrupy, but a paradoxically falling ESR because the patients quagulopathic liver dysfunction and then pheratin.

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