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Deficiency of complement factor H-related proteins and autoantibody-positive hemolytic uremic syndrome in an infant with combined partial deficiencies and autoantibodies to complement factor H and ADAMTS13.

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Mini Michael Nancy Turner Ewa Elenberg Linda G Shaffer Jun Teruya Mazen Arar Shiu-Ki Hui Richard J Smith Joel Moake

Clin Kidney J 2018 Dec 7;11(6):791-796. Epub 2018 Mar 7.

Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA.

A 3-month-old male infant developed an extremely severe episode of atypical hemolytic uremic syndrome (aHUS) associated with partial deficiencies of full-length complement factor H (FH; ∼15% of infant normal) and a disintegrin and metalloproteinase with a thrombospondin type 1 motif, member 13 (ADAMTS13) (39% of normal) and autoantibodies reactive with both proteins. His FH and ADAMTS13 genes were normal, indicating that the partial deficiencies were acquired, probably as the result of autoantibodies against full-length FH and ADAMTS13. The child also had a homozygous deletion of the complement factor H-related (CFHR)3-CFHR1 portion in the complement factor H () gene cluster. He therefore had deficiency of CFHR proteins and autoantibody-positive hemolytic uremic syndrome (DEAP-HUS) with an unusual early onset associated with a partial deficiency of ADAMTS13 and an anti-ADAMTS13 autoantibody. His clinical episode of aHUS responded to plasma infusion and subsequent treatment with mycophenolate and rituximab. We believe that this is the first report of DEAP-HUS in an infant with partial deficiencies in both ADAMTS13 and full-length FH acquired in association with autoantibodies to both proteins.

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