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Hemolytic uremic syndrome due to homozygous factor H deficiency.
Clinical and experimental nephrology - 1 Oct 2009
Sethi Sidharth Kumar, Marie-Agnes Dragon-Durey, Thaker Neelam, Hari Pankaj, Bagga Arvind
Abstract excerpt
The majority of complement factor H mutations associated with atypical hemolytic uremic syndrome (HUS) are heterozygous. Homozygous mutations causing atypical hemolytic uremic syndrome are rare. We report a 7-month-old boy with HUS, severe hypocomplementemia (low C3 and normal C4 levels), and extremely low circulating levels of factor H. Genetic analysis showed homozygous 4 bp deletion in the gene encoding factor...
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