Eculizumab for the treatment of pregnancy-related atypical hemolytic uremic syndrome

Annals of Hematology

Volumn 93, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 1421-1422

  Cañigral, Carolina ^a   Moscardó, Federico ^a   Castro, Cristina ^a   Pajares, Azucena ^a   Lancharro, Aima ^a   Solves, Pilar ^a   De La Rubia, Javier ^a   Carpio, Nelly ^a   Sanz, Miguel A ^a  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO LA FE   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECULIZUMAB;

ADULT; CASE REPORT; FEMALE; HEMOLYTIC UREMIC SYNDROME; HUMAN; KIDNEY FUNCTION; LETTER; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THROMBOCYTE COUNT;

ADRENAL CORTEX HORMONES; ADULT; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL, HUMANIZED; CESAREAN SECTION; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; FEMALE; HEMOLYTIC-UREMIC SYNDROME; HUMANS; HYSTERECTOMY; KIDNEY FUNCTION TESTS; PLASMA EXCHANGE; PLATELET COUNT; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, HEMATOLOGIC; PUERPERAL DISORDERS; REMISSION INDUCTION; RESPIRATION, ARTIFICIAL;

EID: 84904743684     PISSN: 09395555     EISSN: 14320584     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00277-013-1970-3     Document Type: Letter

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