2017
DOI: 10.4103/ijccm.ijccm_121_17
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Hemolytic-uremic syndrome complicating acute pancreatitis

Abstract: Hemolytic-uremic syndrome (HUS) is characterized by acute kidney injury with hemolytic anemia and thrombocytopenia. It has diverse etiologies, clinical manifestations, and risk factors. Acute pancreatitis as a cause of HUS is rare in adults. We report a case of 32-year-old male who presented with ethanol-induced acute pancreatitis complicated with hemolytic-uremic syndrome managed with hemodialysis and plasmapheresis.

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“…There are various reports of autoimmune pancreatitis with autoimmune hemolytic anemia [ 11 ], TTP [ 12 ], HUS [ 13 ], and aHUS [ 6 ] in TMA secondary to pancreatitis, and drug-induced TMA [ 14 ] is also a possibility when drugs potentially causing TMA are used before or during hospitalization. However, TMA, including aHUS, must be assumed when pancreatitis is accompanied by elevated creatinine, hemolytic anemia, and low platelets, and peripheral blood smears or assay of ADAMTS13 levels, for example, should be employed for further differentiation of TMA.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…There are various reports of autoimmune pancreatitis with autoimmune hemolytic anemia [ 11 ], TTP [ 12 ], HUS [ 13 ], and aHUS [ 6 ] in TMA secondary to pancreatitis, and drug-induced TMA [ 14 ] is also a possibility when drugs potentially causing TMA are used before or during hospitalization. However, TMA, including aHUS, must be assumed when pancreatitis is accompanied by elevated creatinine, hemolytic anemia, and low platelets, and peripheral blood smears or assay of ADAMTS13 levels, for example, should be employed for further differentiation of TMA.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…There have been only a few reported cases of aHUS caused by acute pancreatitis. Singh et al described a very similar case in which a 32-year-old male patient presented with acute pancreatitis and then developed aHUS which necessitated plasmapheresis 1. They hypothesised that in either HUS or TTP secondary to pancreatitis the pancreatic proteases modify circulating von Willebrand factor (vWF) molecules enabling spontaneous platelet aggregation.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…They hypothesised that in either HUS or TTP secondary to pancreatitis the pancreatic proteases modify circulating von Willebrand factor (vWF) molecules enabling spontaneous platelet aggregation. They felt using vWF-cleaving protease (ADAMTS-13) would help differentiate between TTP and aHUS 1. Prior to this, Swisher et al described five cases of patients who presented with acute pancreatitis and then developed aHUS while hospitalised 2.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Bei dem hämolytisch-urämischen Syndrom (HUS) handelt es sich ebenfalls um eine systemische Erkrankung der kleinen Blutgefäße (Unterform der thrombotischen Mikroangiopathie, TMA), die durch thrombotische Verschlüsse der Kapillaren, Störung der Mikrozirkulation, Thrombozytopenie und AKI charakterisiert wird [62]. Vergleichbar der AAV zeigten sowohl retrospektive Untersuchungen als auch Fallbeispiele, dass sich eine AP noch vor Entstehung eines AKI manifestieren kann [63,64]. Klinische Fallberichte zeigen zudem, dass in seltenen Fällen eine AP ebenfalls eine TMA induzieren kann [65,66].…”
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