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Impact of hypertensive emergency and rare complement variants on the presentation and outcome of atypical hemolytic uremic syndrome
19 Mar 2019
Abstract excerpt
A typical hemolytic uremic syndrome (aHUS) is a prototypic thrombotic microangiopathy attributable to complement dysregulation. Hypertensive emergency, characterized by elevation of systolic (>180 mmHg) or diastolic (>120 mmHg) blood pressure together with end-organ damage, can cause thrombotic microangiopathy which may mimic aHUS. We retrospectively evaluated the clinical, biological and complement genetic...
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