Cholecystectomy-induced thrombotic microangiopathy (TMA) in a postpartum patient successfully treated with eculizumab: a case report
Our case emphasizes the importance of clinicians possessing a high degree of clinical awareness and judgement surrounding complement-mediated TMA, aHUS and its subsets, and surgery as a precipitator, regardless of safety, particularly during the postpartum period.
Authors
- Matthew Nguyen (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0002-4262-4332)
- Ashley Meyer (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6565-3510)
- Minh‐Ha Tran (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9974-5277)
- Ramy Magdy Hanna (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1807-8909)
- Kenny Vongbunyong (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2852-4127)
- Dong Ren
- Omar S. Darwish (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5371-9903)
- K Uchida
Institutions
- University of California, Irvine (US)
- University of California, Irvine Medical Center (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Journal of Medical Case Reports
- Published
- 2024-12-26
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1186/s13256-024-04804-9
- Primary Topic
- Complement system in diseases
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00