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Javed Mohammed1, Guido Filler, April Price
1Department of Paediatrics, Children's Hospital at London Health Science Centre, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada.
Abstract:
The spectrum of extra-renal involvement secondary to diarrhoeal (D+) haemolytic uraemic syndrome (HUS) includes neurological, gastrointestinal, hepatic, pancreatic and cardiac complications. Among the cardiac complications, myocardial injury has been more commonly reported with HUS. Literature is scarce on HUS-associated pericardial involvement. We report a HUS-induced significant pericardial effusion that resulted in a cardiac tamponade. We also discuss the diagnostic and therapeutic implications of this complication.
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