Hyperuricemia in the Hemolytic-Uremic Syndrome

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• Elevated serum uric acid concentrations were found in 18 children with hemolytic-uremic syndrome. The highest recorded level in each patient ranged from 10 to 29 mg/100 ml, and nine patients had concentrations of greater than 20 mg/100 ml. During a 53-hour period of peritoneal dialysis, 5.5 gm of uric acid was removed from one infant. Although acute renal failure was probably the major factor, erythrocyte destruction and hyperlacticacidemia may also have been important in the pathogenesis of the hyperuricemia. (Am J Dis Child 130:854-856, 1976)

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