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. 2012 Oct;5(5):484-5.
doi: 10.1093/ckj/sfs090.

Immunoadsorption for paediatric post-diarrhoea haemolytic-uraemic syndrome with severe neurological involvement

C Pietrement  1 , N Bednarek  1 , V Baudouin  2 , M Fila  2 , G Deschênes  2
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Immunoadsorption for paediatric post-diarrhoea haemolytic-uraemic syndrome with severe neurological involvement

C Pietrement et al. Clin Kidney J. 2012 Oct.
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Fig. 1.
Course of a 26-months-old girl with severe post-diarrhoea HUS treated by administration of eculizumab and by immunoadsorption. (a) day 1 MRI: diffusion-weighted image, axial view: marked bilateral hypersignal in thalami. (b) day 8 MRI: diffusion-weighted image, axial view: marked bilateral hypersignal in thalami, putamina and asymetrical hypersignal in right occipital lobe. (c) day 30 MRI: T2-weighted image, axial view: global cortical and basal ganglia atrophy with marked bilateral hypersignal in putamina.
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