eRAM
encyclopedia of Rare Disease Annotation for Precision Medicine
| Disease | thrombocytopenia |
| Comorbidity | C0022660|acute renal failure |
| Sentences | 1 |
| PubMedID- 21694933 | Hemolytic uremic syndrome (hus) is a thrombotic microangiopathy characterized by hemolytic anemia and thrombocytopenia often complicated by acute renal failure in children.1 both typical or diarrhea-associated hus form is associated with infection by escherichia coli and has a good prognosis.2 a second less common from, termed atypical, nondiarrhea-associated hus (ahus) is a heterogeneous recurrent disorder which displays high mortality and morbidity.3 this form can occur at any age with familial and sporadic cases. |
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