The Foundation for Children with Atypical HUS

Thank you to all the participating parents in the Iowa conference, you are a great resource for our group and were wonderful with your encouragement to the researchers, I think they felt "the Love"! Anyone who would like to chime in with a brief comment about your experience, please feel free to do so. Bill and I really enjoyed meeting everyone and hope their was information relative to your situation. Wasn't Dr. Smith and his group wonderful! We are so priviledged to be associated with such a exceptional group of people. Research group, if your peeking her THANK YOU SO MUCH!

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Parent Conference PowerPoint Slides are NOW AVAILABLE !!

However, we cannot publicly post them. The use is limited to private sharing for medical purposes only.

Therefore, we can only email them, and we also have to restrict the mailing list to a) MDs or Researchers and b) Parents or patients over the age of 18. Finally, we do require that you have been a member for at least 30 days.

You can email Cheryl or Linda for a copy of the Powerpoints
I fear a month from now, I will not find his link again to request them. I'm new to the site and am trying desperately to understand my disease. Any suggestions would be appreciated!  Thanks! 

Cheryl Biermann said:
Parent Conference PowerPoint Slides are NOW AVAILABLE !! However, we cannot publicly post them. The use is limited to private sharing for medical purposes only.

Therefore, we can only email them, and we also have to restrict the mailing list to a) MDs or Researchers and b) Parents or patients over the age of 18. Finally, we do require that you have been a member for at least 30 days.

You can email Cheryl or Linda for a copy of the Powerpoints

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The Foundation for Children with Atypical HUS encourages patients and investigators to share information and explore options/resources as we work together to gain insight into this rare complement disorder. By increasing contact opportunities with researchers and medical personnel interested in helping the aHUS community, our stories foster a better understanding of atypical hemolytic uremic syndrome.

Sharing information, inspiration and support for one another, we seek to gather together people and knowledge as we strive to improve the lives of patients and families dealing with a diagnosis of aHUS.


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Did you know...

CFH (Serum Complement Factor H) is a regulatory protein. The secreted protein product of CFH consists of 20 repetitive units named "short consensus repeats" or SCRs (each approximately 60 amino acids). In patients with aHUS the last 5 "pearls" in the twenty pearl strand protein, SCR16 - SCR20, should bind to protect cells but do not- they are defective in one or more of the last 5 SCR locations. If they cannot bind or stick to the kidney to protect that tissue, the platelets clump into clots that affect the glomeruli of the kidney -potentially causing acute renal failure.
  
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It is estimated that there are about 300 cases of aHUS in the U.S., and it is most common with young children. The condition is life threatening and either can be chronic or can recur at intervals.
  
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