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Revision as of 20:57, 20 February 2018

Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]

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 ==Differentiating Hemolytic-uremic syndrome from other Diseases==
-Clinically, HUS can be very hard to distinguish from [[thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura]] (TTP). The [[laboratory]] features are almost identical, and not every case of HUS is preceded by diarrhea. The only distinguishing feature is that in TTP, [[neurology|neurological]] symptoms occur more often, but this is not always the case.
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