Hemolytic uremic syndrome complications and treatment.

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  • Samar Sahib Abbas Assistant Lecturer Technical Institute- Samawa.

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.28922/qmj.2009.5.7.120-126

Abstract

This study carried out on 55 recorded cases child of hemolytic uremic syndrome admitted during a period of eight years (1991-1998) to Al-Mansour pediatric teaching hospital in Baghdad.It is found that gastrointestinal tract complications was the commonest (32.7%) followed by central nervous system complications (20%) while hypertension was present only in (14.5%) of patients thirty three percent of patients died. Central nervous system complications were statistically significant risk factor for death . these result comes with the result of taper – D et al (11) study except that the number of death was only (8%) which is low figure in comparison with this study.

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2017-08-15

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