Acute Neurological Involvement in Diarrhea-Associated Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome
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Acute neurological involvement in diarrhea-associated hemolytic uremic syndrome.
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Neurologic involvement is the most threatening complication of diarrhea-associated hemolytic uremic syndrome (D+HUS). DESIGN, SETTING, PARTICIPANTS, & MEASUREMENTS We report a retrospective multicenter series of 52 patients with severe initial neurologic involvement that occurred in the course of D+HUS. RESULTS Verotoxigenic Escherichia coli infection was documente...
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عنوان ژورنال: Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology
سال: 2010
ISSN: 1555-9041,1555-905X
DOI: 10.2215/cjn.08921209