Conditions: Atypical Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome
Keywords: aHUS
Allocation: NON_RANDOMIZED | Intervention model: SINGLE_GROUP
Enrollment: 16
Healthy volunteers: no

Brief summary:
The purpose of this study is to determine whether eculizumab is safe and effective in the treatment of adult patients with plasma therapy-resistant Atypical Hemolytic-Uremic Syndrome (aHUS).

Detailed description:

Arms:
arm 1: None

Interventions: intervention 1: Eculizumab
Intervention descriptions: intervention 1: All patients received open-label eculizumab administered intravenously on the following dose schedule: Induction dose - 900 mg per week for four weeks and a dose of 1200 mg one week later; Maintenance dose - 1200 mg every two weeks. Patients who received plasma exchange or infusion during the eculizumab treatment period received a supplemental dose of 600 mg within one hour before plasma infusion or within one hour after the completion of each plasma exchange

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