TY - BOOK AU - Raghda Taha Ahmed Mohammad Fouda AU - Azza Ahmed Aboulenein , AU - Dalia Gameel Amin , AU - Mohamed Hesham Safouh , TI - The specific von willebrand factor-cleaving protease ADAMTS13 activity in childhood HUS in a Pediatric University Hospital in Egypt / PY - 2013/// CY - Cairo : PB - Raghda Taha Ahmed Mohammad Fouda , KW - ADAMTS13 KW - Children KW - Hemolytic uremic syndrome N1 - Thesis (M.Sc.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Medicine - Department of Clinical and Chemical Pathology; Issued also as CD N2 - Considering the overlapping clinical manifestation of hemolytic uremic syndrome (HUS) and thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura (TTP), we hypothesized that ADAMTS13 would be an important factor in discrimination between the two TMAs. The goal of this study was to determine ADAMTS13 activity as well as the presence of inhibitors in children with typical postdiarrheal (D+) or atypical non-post diarrheal (D-) HUS ER -