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Summary
A 17-year-old girl presented with fever, myalgia, vomiting for 1 month and oliguria and dyspnoea for 4 days. She was tachycardic,hypertensive, with pedal oedema and decreased breath sounds. She had high serum creatinine (3 mg/dL), anaemia, thrombocytopenia, leucocytosis and eosinophilia with schistocytes. Lactate dehydrogenase, transaminases were high , with low haptoglobin and high ferritin (5269 ng/mL). Complement C3/C4 and fibrinogen were normal. Urinalysis showed large blood and protein and stool studies were negative. Her ADAMTS13 (a disintegrin and metalloproteinase with a thrombospondin type 1 motif, member 13) was normal. Kidney biopsy showed acute interstitial nephritis (AIN) in addition to thrombotic angiopathy. The differentials - haemolytic uraemic syndrome (HUS), thrombotic thrombocytopenia (TTP) and haemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis (HLH) were ruled out. Her genetic testing was abnormal for large CFHR1–CFHR3 homozygous deletion and heterozygous missense variant in exon 2 of DGKE making the diagnosis of atypical HUS. She received eculizumab and was discharged on oral steroids for AIN and biweekly eculizumab infusions with excellent recovery.
- paediatrics
- medical management
- renal medicine
- acute renal failure
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Contributors RB and RW have been involved in treating the patient and in planning, conducing, reporting, conception and design, acquisition of data, and analysis and interpretation of data. XW and CK were involved in planning, conducting, reporting, conception and design, acquisition of data, and analysis and interpretation of data.
Competing interests None declared.
Patient consent Guardian consent obtained.
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