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Eculizumab and drug-induced haemolytic-uraemic syndrome
5 Sept 2013
Abstract excerpt
The monoclonal anti-C5 antibody eculizumab has been successfully tested in atypical haemolytic-uraemic syndrome (aHUS), with or without mutations in the regulatory proteins of the alternative pathway of the complement, and less convincingly in enterohaemorrhagic Escherichia coli-associated HUS. Here, we report a patient with mitomycin-C-induced HUS unresponsive to plasma exchanges. Eculizumab infusion was...
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