The Department of Medicines and Toxicology of the Faculty of Pharmacy organized a panel discussion on HLH with the participation of researchers and specialists. It included The panel discussion is a lecture given by the pharmacist Doaa Qassem through which she showed the introduction of the disease, which is a rare life-threatening disease that affects Different groups are produced by increased stimulation of the immune system, especially lymphocytes and macrophages leading to increased release of cytokines. Consequently, all organs of the body are incapacitated, resulting in death. The panel discussion aimed at explaining the causes of this disease, which may It's genetic, usually in babies and babies, due to the absence of perforin, whose deficiency is the inability to kill cells. The infected and therefore increased stimulation of the immune system as well can be due to the fact that the disease is acquired and not genetic such as infection Such as EBV, HSV, CMV and people with carcinogenic and autoimmune diseases. The lecture also touched on Treatment protocols for this disease, the most important of which are dexamethasone and itoposide
