Clinical aspects of a nationwide epidemic of severe haemolytic uremic syndrome (HUS) in children

Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine

Volumn 19, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Krogvold, Lars ^a   Henrichsen, Thore ^a   Bjerre, Anna ^b   Brackman, Damien ^c   Dollner, Henrik ^d   Gudmundsdottir, Helga ^a   Syversen, Gaute ^a   Næss, Pål A ^a   Bangstad, Hans J ^a  

^a ULLEVÅL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

^b OSLO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

^c HAUKELAND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

^d TRONDHEIM UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EPIDEMIC; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTION; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HEMOLYTIC UREMIC SYNDROME; HUMAN; INFANT; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; MICROBIOLOGY; NORWAY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROGNOSIS; SHIGA TOXIN PRODUCING ESCHERICHIA COLI; STATISTICS;

CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; FEMALE; HEMOLYTIC-UREMIC SYNDROME; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; NORWAY; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PROGNOSIS; SHIGA-TOXIGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 79960656890     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17577241     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1757-7241-19-44     Document Type: Article

References (28)

1. Tarr PI, Gordon CA, Chandler WL. Shiga-toxin-producing Escherichia coli and haemolytic uraemic syndrome. Lancet 2005, 365:1073-1086.
2. Lynn RM, O'Brien SJ, Taylor CM, Adak GK, Chart H, Cheasty T, Coia JE, Gillespie IA, Locking ME, Reilly WJ, Smith HR, Waters A, Willshae GA. Childhood hemolytic uremic syndrome, United Kingdom and Ireland. Emerg Infect Dis 2005, 11:590-596.
3. Banatvala N, Griffin PM, Greene KD, Barrett TJ, Bibb WF, Green JH, Wells JG. The United States National Prospective Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome Study: microbiologic, serologic, clinical, and epidemiologic findings. J Infect Dis 2001, 183:1063-1070. 10.1086/319269, 11237831.
4. Bell BP, Goldoft M, Griffin PM, Davis MA, Gordon DC, Tarr PI, Bartleson CA, Lewis JH, Barrett TJ, Wells JG, Baron R, Kobayashi J. A multistate outbreak of Escherichia coli O157:H7-associated bloody diarrhea and hemolytic uremic syndrome from hamburgers. The Washington experience. JAMA 1994, 272:1349-1353. 10.1001/jama.272.17.1349, 7933395.
5. Brooks JT, Sowers EG, Wells JG, Greene KD, Griffin PM, Hoekstra RM, Strockbine NA. Non-O157 Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli infections in the United States, 1983-2002. J Infect Dis 2005, 192:1422-1429. 10.1086/466536, 16170761.
6. Schimmer B, Nygard K, Eriksen HM, Lassen J, Lindstedt BA, Brandal LT, Kapperud G, Aavitsland P. Outbreak of haemolytic uraemic syndrome in Norway caused by stx2-positive Escherichia coli O103:H25 traced to cured mutton sausages. BMC Infect Dis 2008, 8:41. 10.1186/1471-2334-8-41, 2335110, 18387178.
7. Sekse C, Muniesa M, Wasteson Y. Conserved Stx2 phages from Escherichia coli O103:H25 isolated from patients suffering from hemolytic uremic syndrome. Foodborne Pathog Dis 2008, 5:801-810. 10.1089/fpd.2008.0130, 19014273.
8. Gianviti A, Tozzi AE, De PL, Caprioli A, Rava L, Edefonti A, Ardissino G, Montini G, Zacchello G, Ferretti A, Pecoraro C, De Palo T, Caringella A, Gaido M, Coppo R, Perumo F, Miglietti N, Ratsche I, Penza R, Capasso G, Maringhini S, Li Volti S, Setzu C, Pennesi M, Bettinelli A, Peratoner L, Pela I, Salvaggio E, Lama G, Maffei S, Rizzoni G. Risk factors for poor renal prognosis in children with hemolytic uremic syndrome. Pediatr Nephrol 2003, 18:1229-1235. 10.1007/s00467-003-1262-6, 14593522.
9. Malla K, Malla T, Hanif M. Prognostic indicators in haemolytic uraemic syndrome. Kathmandu Univ Med J (KUMJ) 2004, 2:291-296.
10. Siegler RL, Pavia AT, Christofferson RD, Milligan MK. A 20-year population-based study of postdiarrheal hemolytic uremic syndrome in Utah. Pediatrics 1994, 94:35-40.
11. Green DA, Murphy WG, Uttley WS. Haemolytic uraemic syndrome: prognostic factors. Clin Lab Haematol 2000, 22:11-14. 10.1046/j.1365-2257.2000.00272.x, 10762298.
12. Oakes RS, Siegler RL, McReynolds MA, Pysher T, Pavia AT. Predictors of fatality in postdiarrheal hemolytic uremic syndrome. Pediatrics 2006, 117:1656-1662. 10.1542/peds.2005-0785, 16651320.
13. Siegler R, Oakes R. Hemolytic uremic syndrome; pathogenesis, treatment, and outcome. Curr Opin Pediatr 2005, 17:200-204. 10.1097/01.mop.0000152997.66070.e9, 15800412.
14. Siegler RL. Spectrum of extrarenal involvement in postdiarrheal hemolytic-uremic syndrome. J Pediatr 1994, 125:511-518. 10.1016/S0022-3476(94)70001-X, 7931868.
15. Steinborn M, Leiz S, Rudisser K, Griebel M, Harder T, Hahn H. CT and MRI in haemolytic uraemic syndrome with central nervous system involvement: distribution of lesions and prognostic value of imaging findings. Pediatr Radiol 2004, 34:805-810.
16. Crabbe DC, Broklebank JT, Spicer RD. Gastrointestinal complications of the haemolytic uraemic syndrome. J R Soc Med 1990, 83:773-775. 1292951, 2269961.
17. Tapper D, Tarr P, Avner E, Brandt J, Waldhausen J. Lessons learned in the management of hemolytic uremic syndrome in children. J Pediatr Surg 1995, 30:158-163. 10.1016/0022-3468(95)90554-5, 7738732.
18. Saltzman DA, Chavers B, Brennom W, Vernier R, Telander RL. Timing of colonic necrosis in hemolytic uremic syndrome. Pediatr Surg Int 1998, 13:268-270. 10.1007/s003830050313, 9553186.
19. Grodinsky S, Telmesani A, Robson WL, Fick G, Scott RB. Gastrointestinal manifestations of hemolytic uremic syndrome: recognition of pancreatitis. J Pediatr Gastroenterol Nutr 1990, 11:518-524. 10.1097/00005176-199011000-00013, 1702151.
20. Suri RS, Clark WF, Barrowman N, Mahon JL, Thiessen-Philbrook HR, Rosas-Arellano MP, Zarnke K, Garland JS, Garg AX. Diabetes during diarrhea-associated hemolytic uremic syndrome: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Diabetes Care 2005, 28:2556-2562. 10.2337/diacare.28.10.2556, 16186301.
21. Gallo EG, Gianantonio CA. Extrarenal involvement in diarrhoea-associated haemolytic-uraemic syndrome. Pediatr Nephrol 1995, 9:117-119. 10.1007/BF00858990, 7742210.
22. Kaplan BS, Meyers KE, Schulman SL. The pathogenesis and treatment of hemolytic uremic syndrome. J Am Soc Nephrol 1998, 9:1126-1133.
23. Noris M, Remuzzi G. Hemolytic uremic syndrome. J Am Soc Nephrol 2005, 16:1035-1050. 10.1681/ASN.2004100861, 15728781.
24. Grif K, Dierich MP, Karch H, Allerberger F. Strain-specific differences in the amount of Shiga toxin released from enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli O157 following exposure to subinhibitory concentrations of antimicrobial agents. Eur J Clin Microbiol Infect Dis 1998, 17:761-766. 10.1007/s100960050181, 9923515.
25. Kimmitt PT, Harwood CR, Barer MR. Toxin gene expression by shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli: the role of antibiotics and the bacterial SOS response. Emerg Infect Dis 2000, 6:458-465. 10.3201/eid0605.000503, 2627954, 10998375.
26. Bell BP, Griffin PM, Lozano P, Christie DL, Kobayashi JM, Tarr PI. Predictors of hemolytic uremic syndrome in children during a large outbreak of Escherichia coli O157:H7 infections. Pediatrics 1997, 100:E12. 10.1542/peds.100.1.e12, 9200386.
27. Brandt JR, Fouser LS, Watkins SL, Zelikovic I, Tarr PI, Nazar-Stewart V, Avner ED. Escherichia coli O 157:H7-associated hemolytic-uremic syndrome after ingestion of contaminated hamburgers. J Pediatr 1994, 125:519-526. 10.1016/S0022-3476(94)70002-8, 7931869.
28. Proulx F, Sockett P. Prospective surveillance of Canadian children with the haemolytic uraemic syndrome. Pediatr Nephrol 2005, 20:786-790. 10.1007/s00467-005-1843-7, 15834619.