title: [Thrombotic microangiopathy during urinary tract infection].
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Divisione di Nefrologia e Dialisi, Ospedale S G Bosco, Torino-Italy. g.quattrocchio@tin.it
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Quattrocchio
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Rollino
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Beltrame
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Ferro
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Fornari
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Quarello
mesh_terms: D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D013927:Thrombosis / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000209:etiology*; D014552:Urinary Tract Infections / Q000150:complications*