eTable 2. ADAMTS13 activity >10%: atypical hemolytic uremic syndrome, secondary hemolytic uremic syndrome / thrombotic microangiopathy.
Indication for continued plasmapheresis should be rigorously examined | Discontinue plasmapheresis | |||||||
Very rare HUS form (e.g. for children <1 year) |
Complement-mediated HUS | Infections | Autoimmune diseases | Drug-induced TMA | Disseminated cancer |
Malignant hypertension |
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DGKE mutations |
Atypical hemolytic uremic syndrome |
TA-TMA | HIV, CMV, influenza H1N1, parvovirus B19 |
SLE, catastrophic antiphospholipid syndrome (CAPS), ANCA pos. vasculitis, MPGN | Dose dependent, endothelial cell damage | Dose independent, antibody mediated | Prostate, breast, or lung cancer with bone marrow carcinomatosis, intravascular tumor cells | Known hypertension, echocardiography: hypertensive heart disease |
Plasminogen mutations |
Elavated sC5b-9, anti-CFH Ab |
PBSCT, organ transplantation |
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Cobalamin defect |
Mutations: C3, factor H, factor I, factor B, thrombomodulin |
Rarely: ADAMTS13 reduced |
Mitomycin C, gemcitabine, bevacicumab, calcineurin-inhibitors |
Chinidin, oxaliplatin, ticlopidin | ||||
No standard therapy is available | Eculizumab | Discontinue calcineurin inhibitors |
Antiviral therapy (e.g.. HAART) |
CAPS: anticoagulation, plasmapheresis |
Discontinue medication | Treatment of the underlying disease |
Antihypertensive therapy |
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Cobalamin defect:
Vitamin B12 substitution |
Anti-CFH positive: additional plasmapheresis |
(Eculizumab off-label use) |
If ADAMTS13 antibodies are detected: therapy as for aTTP | SLE: immunosuppression |
If ADAMTS13 antibodies are detected: therapy as for aTTP |
ADAMTS13: a disintegrin and metalloprotease with thrombospondin type 1 motif, member 13; ANCA: antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibodies; aTTP: immune-mediated, acquired thrombotic-thrombocytopenic purpura; CAPS: catastrophic antiphospholipid syndrome;
CFH: complement factor H; CMV: cytomegalovirus; DGKE: diacylglycerol kinase; HAART: highly active antiretroviral therapy; HIV: human immunodeficiency virus; HUS: hemolytic uremic syndrome; MPGN: membranoproliferative glomerulonephritis;
PBSCT: peripheral blood stem cell transplantation; SLE: systemic lupus erythematosus; TA-TMA: transplant-associated thrombotic microangiopathy; TMA: thrombotic microangiopathy