Should all adult patients with diarrhoea-associated HUS receive plasma exchange?

The Lancet

Volumn 379, Issue 9815, 2012, Pages 516-

  Tarr, Phillip I ^a   Sadler, J Evan ^a   Chandler, Wayne L ^b   George, James N ^c   Tsai, Han Mou ^d  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HOUSTON METHODIST HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

^d PENN STATE COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECULIZUMAB; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE; SHIGA TOXIN;

BRAIN DISEASE; COMA; CONVULSION; DIALYSIS; GLOMERULUS FILTRATION RATE; HEMOLYTIC UREMIC SYNDROME; HUMAN; KIDNEY FAILURE; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE BLOOD LEVEL; LETTER; PLASMAPHERESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STROKE; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; THROMBOTIC THROMBOCYTOPENIC PURPURA; UREMIA; DIARRHEA; EPIDEMIC; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTION; FEMALE; MALE; NOTE; SHIGA TOXIN PRODUCING ESCHERICHIA COLI;

DIARRHEA; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; FEMALE; HEMOLYTIC-UREMIC SYNDROME; HUMANS; MALE; PLASMA EXCHANGE; SHIGA-TOXIGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 84856865359     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: 1474547X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(12)60225-6     Document Type: Letter

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