Successful treatment of the postpartum atypical hemolytic uremic syndrome with eculizumab

Annals of Internal Medicine

Volumn 159, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 76-

  Zschiedrich, Stefan ^a   Prager, Eric P ^a   Wolfgang Kuehn, E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENT FACTOR I; CREATININE; ECULIZUMAB; PREDNISONE;

ADULT; CASE REPORT; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; DELIRIUM; FEMALE; FRAMESHIFT MUTATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEMODIALYSIS; HEMOLYSIS; HEMOLYTIC UREMIC SYNDROME; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; KIDNEY FAILURE; KIDNEY FUNCTION; LETTER; OLIGURIA; PATIENT TRANSPORT; PLASMAPHERESIS; POSTPARTUM HEMORRHAGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUERPERIUM; STOP CODON; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; THROMBOTIC THROMBOCYTOPENIC PURPURA; TREATMENT DURATION; VAGINAL DELIVERY;

ADULT; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL, HUMANIZED; COMPLEMENT PATHWAY, ALTERNATIVE; FEMALE; HEMOLYTIC-UREMIC SYNDROME; HUMANS; PUERPERAL DISORDERS;

EID: 84879576278     PISSN: 00034819     EISSN: 15393704     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7326/0003-4819-159-1-201307020-00023     Document Type: Letter

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