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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2025 Apr 26.
Published in final edited form as: Med. 2023 Oct 19;4(11):761–777.e8. doi: 10.1016/j.medj.2023.09.002

Table 1. Clinical details of cases whose kidney biopsies were stained with C5b-9.

Case ID Clinical summary Consultant histopathologist biopsy report Glomerular C5b-9
Control 1 18-year-old female with urinary protein: creatinine ratio (uPCR) of 87 and normal serum creatinine healthy appearances negative
Control 2 8-year-old female with Warburg syndrome and new onset nephrotic range proteinuria; chronic lung disease; healthy renal function healthy appearances negative
Control 3 21-year-old male with intermittent frank hematuria; healthy renal function healthy appearances negative
STEC HUS 1 43-year-old female with 1 day history of nausea and vomiting; upon admission, found to be anemic and thrombocytopenic with a serum creatinine of 344 μmol/L; treated with PLEX;
biopsied 14 days after symptom onset; Shiga-toxin-producing E. coli documented
acute glomerular TMA positive
STEC HUS 2 62-year-old female with 3 days history of bloody diarrhea; thrombocytopenic and anemic; PLEX started but stopped when ADAMTS13 found to be normal; kidney dialysis required and biopsied 15 days after symptom onset; Shiga toxin HUS documented acute glomerular TMA positive
STEC HUS 3 2-year-old male with diarrhea and found to have Shiga toxin HUS infection; kidney dialysis required upon admission; biopsied 4 months after presentation chronic active TMA positive
VEGF inhibitor 1 67-year-old female with AKI and proteinuria on Avastin; creatinine 468 μmol/L; proteinuria 9 g in 24 h chronic TMA positive
VEGF inhibitor 2 65-year-old female with nephrotic range proteinuria on Avastin for metastatic ovarian cancer acute glomerular TMA positive
Atypical HUS 1 4-year-old female with microangiopathic anemia and hematuria; identified with alternative complement pathway mutation (factor H mutation) acute glomerular TMA positive