Advanced Prostate Cancer Presenting as Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome

Advanced prostate cancer presented with hemolytic uremic syndrome.

Concurrent Atypical Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome and Autoimmune Hemolytic Anemia: a case report

Background: Atypical hemolytic uremic syndrome (aHUS) is a life-threatening and scarce disorder characterized by acute renal failure and disease, non-immune microangiopathic hemolytic anemia and thrombocytopenia, leading to end-stage renal failure or death, and consequently maybe accompanying by extra renal manifestations. Case report: We reported aHUS accompanied by autoimmune hemolytic anemi...

Delayed Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome Presenting as Diffuse Alveolar Hemorrhage

Hemolytic uremic syndrome (HUS) is defined by the triad of mechanical intravascular hemolytic anemia with schistocytosis, thrombocytopenia and acute renal failure. Pulmonary involvement in HUS is known to be rare. We present the case of a 25-year-old male with diffuse alveolar hemorrhage and myocarditis followed by atypical hemolytic uremic syndrome. In this case, successful treatments included...

Relationship between Pathologic and Laboratory Data of Children Suffering from Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome (HUS): A Center study

Background and objective: Hemolytic uremic syndrome (HUS) is the most prevalent cause of children renal insufficiency which in many cases (90%) occurs following diarrhea. Hemolytic microangiopathic anemia, thrombocytopenia, and renal insufficiency are main symptoms of hemolytic uremic syndrome. This stud...

A case of extremely advanced prostate cancer presenting hemolytic jaundice.

A 62-year-old man having prostate cancer presenting with hemolytic jaundice is reported. The hemolytic jaundice was cured by diethylstilbestrol diphosphate (DES-P) treatment, but the patient died one year and two months later from relapse of prostate cancer. An autopsy confirmed the diagnosis of prostate cancer with multiple metastases. Sudden anemia caused by bone metastasis might have caused ...