E Coli (EHEC) produces Shiga toxin, which causes Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome (HUS). HUS is characterized by a triad of symptoms and its renal manifestation is due to microthrombi formation in the glomeruli, leading to mechanical hemolysis (indicated by schistocytes on a smear), consumption of platelets, and a decrease in hemoglobin.
E Coli (EHEC) produces Shiga toxin, which causes Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome (HUS). HUS is characterized by a triad of symptoms and its renal manifestation is due to microthrombi formation in the glomeruli, leading to mechanical hemolysis (indicated by schistocytes on a smear), consumption of platelets, and a decrease in hemoglobin.
| Front | E Coli EHEC produces?1 this product causes 1 syndrome: with a triad of symptoms the GU/renal manifestation is due to formation of? where? --> mechanical _______ (with 1 smear finding?), consumption of?, and decrease in? |
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