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DR. ROCK:
In fact, in a recent publication
that we had in the British Journal of
Hematology, and this is a publication by all the
members of the Canadian Apheresis group, we found
that the pentad did not present in entirety.
All of our patients had
hemolytic anemia with the odd looking red cells
that you just saw in the slide from Dr.
Lingwood. They all had thrombocytopenia or low
platelet counts. They did not all have CNS
symptoms. However, those that we saw rather
later in the course of the disease, more often
had CNS symptoms. Only a third of our patients
had fever.
And, again, 25 percent presented
with impaired renal function and, again, could be
classified and in the standard course of events
in most hospitals would be considered to be
patients with adult HUS.
