[Thrombotic microangiopathy during urinary tract infection].
An 84 year-old woman was admitted because of sepsis, thrombocytopenia, anaemia and acute renal failure that required hemodialysis. The diagnostic tests performed during hospitalization showed a severe urinary tract infection due to Enterococcus faecalis, resulting in mild sepsis. This infection was responsible for acute tubular necrosis and thrombotic microangiopathy, in a clinical context of difficult differential diagnosis and hemolytic-uremic syndrome.
Quattrocchio
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Divisione di Nefrologia e Dialisi, Ospedale S G Bosco, Torino-Italy. g.quattrocchio@tin.it
Rollino
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Beltrame
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Ferro
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Fornari
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G
Quarello
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F
D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D013927:Thrombosis / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000209:etiology*; D014552:Urinary Tract Infections / Q000150:complications*