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Atypical HUS Patient conference at Newcastle by Kamal S. Patient Expert

Posted Tue 22 Mar 2011 9:05pm The Center for Life at Newcastle upon Tyne, UK, is organizing a conference for patients and their family on atypical Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome on Saturday, June 11th... is one of the world's leading researchers in atypical HUS and it is great that he is organizing this conference. So little is known about this disease that patients Read on »

Are HUS and TTP related? by pathologystudent Posted Mon 29 Nov 2010 8:33am Q. Is there a relationship between hemolytic-uremic syndrome and thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura? I see them lumped together a lot. Also, what does it mean to treat... and TTP are overlapping (both have microangiopathic hemolytic anemia – as seen above – and thrombocytopenia), and although HUS tends to involve more kidney/gut and TTP tends Read on »

The little boy with atypical HUS by Kamal S. Patient Expert

Posted Tue 02 Mar 2010 4:58pm I got a call one evening. "Is this Kamal?" "Yes. Who is this?" "This is Rajesh. My nephew is a three year old boy and has been diagnosed with HUS." At that instant, a flood of emotions went through me. HUS. Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome. Where the body's defense mechanism against foreign bodies goes bonkers and starts attacking its own Read on »

Microangiopathic hemolytic anemia by pathologystudent Posted Fri 31 Jul 2009 11:55am a little about TTP before. 3. Hemolytic-uremic syndrome (HUS) – a disorder often related to ingestion of food (especially raw hamburger, but also spinach, other vegetables, you... We’ve talked about a whole bunch of different hemolytic anemias over the past few weeks. We’ve gone through the main hereditary hemolytic anemias: hereditary spherocytosis Read on »

New Indian website on Pediatric Nephrology by Kamal S. Patient Expert

Posted Tue 15 Dec 2009 4:11am . The blog features the latest in the field of pediatric nephrology from around the world. I have a special interest in this field because my primary disease Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome is usually a pediatric disease. Mostly children are affected by this disease. Adults are only rarely affected. So, a lot of work in this area has been done by pediatric Read on »

FDA, CDC, and Costco warn consumers to avoid Bravo Farms Dutch Style Gouda cheese by FDA Posted Thu 04 Nov 2010 7:15pm failure called hemolytic uremic syndrome (HUS) can occur; this can happen at any age but is most common in children under 5 years old and in older adults. People with HUS should...), CA (1), CO (8), NM (3) and NV (2). There have been 9 reported hospitalizations, 1 possible case of hemolytic uremic syndrome (HUS), and no deaths. What is the Problem Read on »

Cookies and Milk and E. coli by DiseaseProof Medical Doctor

Posted Thu 25 Jun 2009 11:41am lead to hemolytic uremic syndrome, resulting in kidney damage and even death; HealthDay News reports. Yuck. I may have a cookie from time to time, but milk! No way. Our food Read on »

The transplant conundrum by Kamal S. Patient Expert

Posted Sun 24 Aug 2008 9:48pm . Dr. Tim Goodship of England has a project going where they have identified a sequence of genes which are responsible for 30% of the people with familial Atypical Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome (my native disease) i.e., 30% of people who have HUS in their genes have this gene sequence. I sent my blood sample to him and I have just got the complete set Read on »

Why me? An answer at last! by Kamal S. Patient Expert

Posted Fri 12 Feb 2010 6:23am I recently stumbled upon a site for atypical Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome (aHUS), the disease that I have. It is such a rare disease - there are only about 300 people who have... have been digging up a lot about the disease over the past couple of weeks. This is what I found: There are some defects in the genes of people who have aHUS. The defective Read on »

No transplant for now by Kamal S. Patient Expert

Posted Fri 26 Sep 2008 2:47pm in people like me whose primary kidney disease was Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome (HUS). I had discussions with my nephrologist and we were still undecided. I took prints of the relevant research papers. The Mario Negri Institute in Bergamo, Italy had done a lot of research on HUS. In one paper summarizing their findings, they suggested that a transplant Read on »