[Diagnosis of hemolytic uremic syndrome].
Hemolytic uremic syndrome is a disease of nonimmune hemolytic anemia, low platelet count and renal impairment. In children below three years old, the disease is most commonly triggered by contaminated food and is the first cause of acute renal failure. Shiga-like toxin Escherichia coli (STEC) are responsible for the disease. Modalities of contamination, clinical course of bloody diarrhea and chronology of biological defects are described in this paper.
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Service de Pédiatrie, Centre Hospitalier de Versailles, 177, rue de Versailles, 78150 Le Chesnay, France. snathanson@ch-versailles.fr
D003967:Diarrhea / Q000382:microbiology; D004927:Escherichia coli Infections / Q000150:complications; D006463:Hemolytic-Uremic Syndrome / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000382:microbiology / Q000628:therapy; D006801:Humans; D009422:Nervous System Diseases / Q000209:etiology