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Liver–kidney transplantation to cure atypical HUS: still an option post-eculizumab?

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Patients with end-stage renal disease (ESRD) due to atypical HUS (aHUS) now have several potential options that can enable successful kidney transplantation. This editorial addresses these options by considering key factors that are important when making an individual treatment decision.

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Acknowledgements

The author thanks those individual physicians who originally provided or updated verbal communications about cases. The opinions in this editorial should not be inferred to reflect the opinions of those individuals. The author has no affiliation with pedneph@lists.uchicago.edu, but thanks its administrators and participants for its open “community” use. Verbal communications unique to this report include those noted above (H. Cho, South Korea; A. Portale, USA; R. Grenda and M. Zaniew, Poland) and update confirmations from: R. Cohn, USA; E. Girardin, Switzerland; L. Milner, USA; and S. Rodriguez de Cordoba, Spain.

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Saland, J. Liver–kidney transplantation to cure atypical HUS: still an option post-eculizumab?. Pediatr Nephrol 29, 329–332 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00467-013-2722-2

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