uremic

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Atypical hemolytic-uremic syndrome is a disease of uncontrolled complement activation associated with

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  1. of or involving excess nitrogenous waste products in the urine (usually due to kidney insufficiency)

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  • Atypical hemolytic-uremic syndrome is a disease of uncontrolled complement activation associated with —  Medlogs - Recent stories
  • We report on a case of atypical hemolytic-uremic syndrome that was successfully treated with eculizumab, a humanized monoclonal antibody that blocks complement activity by cleavage of the complement protein C5, —  Medlogs - Recent stories
  • Atypical hemolytic-uremic syndrome of infancy is a rare disorder that is associated with thrombotic microangiopathy and acute renal failure. —  Medlogs - Recent stories
  • Thus science is able effectively to stay the progress of the high blood-pressure of former days, and which was so often followed by eclampsia--uremic poisoning In these days of careful urine analysis, expertly administered anaesthetics, and up-to-date hospital confinements, the average intelligent woman may enter into pregnancy quite free from the oldtime fears, whose only rewards were grief and cankering care. —  The Mother and Her Child
  • Such patients are subject to attacks of temporary blindness of uremic origin. —  Mother's Remedies Over One Thousand Tried and Tested Remedies from Mothers of the United States and Canada
 

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