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Adult Post-Kidney Transplant Familial Atypical Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome Successfully Treated With Eculizumab: A Case Report and Literature Review.
American journal of therapeutics - 1 Jan 2000
Salameh Hassan, Abu Omar Mohannad, Alhariri Ahmad, Kisra Sood, Qasem Abdulraheem, Abdulhak Aref Bin
Abstract excerpt
Hemolytic uremic syndrome is the triad of nonimmune microangiopathic hemolytic anemia, thrombocytopenia, and acute renal failure. When not associated with enteric infection, it is classified as atypical hemolytic uremic syndrome (aHUS) and carries a worse outcome with high mortality rate and up to 50% of the survivors will end up with end-stage renal disease. Renal transplant was restricted to a very small...
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