resulting in fewer red blood cells and a type of anemia called anemia of chronic disease. Uremic toxins can also prevent platelets (the type of blood cell involved in clotting) from sticking ...

Patients with uremia secondary to chronic kidney disease will generally require EPO replacement therapy for treatment or prevention of anemia; recombinant human EPO is, therefore, already a ...

Diarrhea-positive hemolytic-uremic syndrome (HUS) is a renal disorder that results from infections with Shiga-toxin (Stx)-producing Escherichia coli. The aim of this study was to establish ...

Smoldering TMA will sometimes result in kidney damage without significant anemia or low platelets ... requiring dialysis with a cause of TMA known as atypical hemolytic uremic syndrome (aHUS).

Introduction: Up to 40% of patients with typical hemolytic–uremic syndrome (HUS), characterized by microangiopathic hemolytic anemia and acute kidney injury (AKI), develop long-term consequences, most ...