HEMOLYTIC-UREMIC SYNDROME IN PEDIATRICS AND ITS COMPLICATIONS: CASE ANALYSIS

Abstract

Hemolytic-Uremic Syndrome (HUS) is a serious disease characterized by the classic triad of microangiopathic hemolytic anemia, thrombocytopenia and acute renal failure.  This research is a systematic literature review, of a quantitative nature, which used the platforms PubMed, Scientific Electronic Library On-line (SciELO) and Google Scholar as a database to search for scientific articles.  The choice of articles to be used in this review was performed by reading the title, abstract and, finally, reading the article in its entirety, with a careful analysis of the articles based on the aforementioned inclusion and exclusion criteria.  The pathogenesis of HUS corresponds to a thrombotic microangiopathy, with a poor prognosis, and the diagnosis is usually made from the exclusion of other diseases.  In the first clinical manifestation of the disease, almost half of the patients evolve to death or progress to end-stage renal disease.  The treatment has the use of the drug Eculizumab, which has a high cost, but increases the expectation and quality of life of these patients.  Thus, further studies on this disease are necessary for the development of new diagnostic measures and therapies.