A Rare Cause of Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome: Salmonella Typhii
Abstract
Hemolytic uremic syndrome (HUS) is a serious disease characterized by microangiopathic hemolytic anemia, thrombocytopenia and acute renal failure.
If an appropriate diagnosis and treatment is not initiated, it can be fatal. Infectious agents are generally blamed in the etiology. Generally, infections due
to microorganisms producing verocytotoxin (Shiga-like toxin) take an important place in etiology. Pathogens responsible for these infections were mostly
reported as Enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli (EHEC), Shigella dysanteria type 1, and less frequently as Citrobacter freundi. More rarely, HUS cases due
to Streptococcus pneumoniae, HIV, Clostiridium difficile have been reported in the literature. This case is presented because of the detection of Salmonella
Typhii, as a very rare factor in the etiology of HUS, which developed in a 28-year-old male patient.
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