Microangiopathic hemolytic anemia occurs in a diverse group of disorders, including thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura, hemolytic uremic syndrome, and prosthetic cardiac valves. Hemolytic anemia also occurs as a rare complication after mitral valve repair. In this report, we describe a case of microangiopathic hemolytic anemia following myxoma excision and mitral valve repair, which was presen...

Hemolytic uremic syndrome is caused primarily by Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli O157:H7. The most common cause of acute renal failure in children, hemolytic uremic syndrome also can occur in adults. Characteristic features of the syndrome are microangiopathic anemia, thrombotic thrombocytopenia, and renal failure. Although the presentation of this syndrome is diverse, the classic prodro...

There is a significant risk of disease recurrence in patients with diarrhea-negative hemolyticuremic syndrome undergoing renal transplantation. Considering the low frequency of hemolyticuremic syndrome among adults with end-stage renal disease, only a few reports are available on the outcome of these patients after renal transplantation. It has been suggested, though not proven, that living rel...

Abbreviations: CBC, complete blood count; Hb, hemoglobin; HPLC, high-performance liquid chromatography. 2011;26:162-5. 7. Cho HY, Lee BS, Moon KC, Ha IS, Cheong HI, Choi Y. Complete factor H deficiency-associated atypical hemolytic uremic syndrome in a neonate. Pediatr Nephrol 2007;22:874-80. 8. Frémeaux-Bacchi V, Miller EC, Liszewski MK, et al. Mutations in complement C3 predispose to developm...

Hemolytic-uremic syndrome is defined by a combination between renal failure, microangiopathic hemolytic anemia and thrombocytopenia; it usually appears in young children, is preceded by gastrointestinal enteritis and may involve other organs as well. The purpose of this article is to present a series of four cases of lethal hemolytic uremic syndrome and discuss its legal medicine consequences. ...

Hemolytic-uremic syndrome (HUS) is the most common cause of acute renal failure in children and is increasingly recognized in adults.[1, 2] Thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura (TTP), childhood HUS, and adult HUS differ in their clinical presentations, but these conditions have many common features. Gasser et al first described hemolytic-uremic syndrome (HUS) in 1955. In 1988, Wardle described h...

Hemolytic uremic syndrome (HUS) is a thrombotic microangiopathy defined by the triad of sudden onset hemolytic anemia, thrombocytopenia, and acute kidney injury. We describe rare case atypical HUS secondary to pancreatitis with an unknown etiology in 20-year-old male who presented complaint nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain.

BACKGROUND Hemolytic uremic syndrome is characterized by acute renal failure, thrombocytopenia, and Coombs-negative hemolytic anemia. In C3 mesangial proliferative glomerulonephritis, an increase in mesangial cell proliferation without thickening in the glomerular capillary wall can be seen under light microscopy, but the definitive diagnosis is made with the immunohistologic demonstration of i...

BACKGROUND Non-Shiga toxin-associated hemolytic uremic syndrome is known to be caused by dysregulation of the alternative complement pathway. Infections, drugs, pregnancy, bone marrow transplantation, malignancy, and autoimmune disorders have all been reported to trigger episodes of atypical hemolytic uremic syndrome. To the best of our knowledge, there have been no previous reports of an assoc...