Liver-kidney transplantation to cure atypical HUS: Still an option post-eculizumab?

Pediatric Nephrology

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 329-332

  Saland, Jeffrey ^a  

^a MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Atypical hemolytic uremic syndrome; Eculizumab; Kidney transplantation; Liver transplantation; Resource allocation

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL, HUMANIZED; COMPLEMENT FACTOR H; FEMALE; HEMOLYTIC-UREMIC SYNDROME; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; KIDNEY DISEASES; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MUTATION; PLASMA EXCHANGE;

EID: 84894107600     PISSN: 0931041X     EISSN: 1432198X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00467-013-2722-2     Document Type: Review

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