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Linda Burke left a comment for Jooste Vermeulen"Hi Jooste,
Hope everything is fine since your last email. Best wishes, Linda"
Jooste Vermeulen left a comment for Retha Vosloo"Hi Retha,
My personal email is jooste@polka.co.za and my cell is 0768972021 Please give ma a call."
Jooste Vermeulen left a comment for Retha Vosloo"Hello Retha, ek is in Kaapstad en ons seun Rijk is al 4 jaar met aHUS. Byt vas julle gaan OK wees. Wat is julle nr? My Cel is 0768972021 By my asb of ek sal jou bel. Rijk was ook 14 dae in ICU en hy is daardeur."
Cheryl Biermann left a comment for Jooste Vermeulen"Oh, so sweet. Thank you for sharing your story. You are in the right place, did you know our main researcher, Dr. Smith also has experience with Dense Deposit Disorder. It is good to have you here, perhaps this site will prove to be some comfort to…"
Jooste Vermeulen left a comment for Svetlana Finley"Hi, yes Rijk still gets peritoneal dialysis every day. We don't know for how long. Might be life long or when his body is big enough to risk a simultaneous liver/kidney transplant."
Svetlana Finley left a comment for Jooste Vermeulen"Love your son's pictures, he is soo cute!!! Is he still getting treatments?"
Amy Swarbrick left a comment for Jooste Vermeulen"Sorry to hear about your son's factor H mutations. He is such a doll. My son Brody has a mutation in scr 13 of his factor H gene. Brody will be 2 on April 2nd. Welcome to the site."
Svetlana Finley left a comment for Jooste Vermeulen"Welcome here!!! This site is awesome i hope u will find help and support here ;-)"
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- Birthday
- April 1
- Do you have a friend or family member diagnosed with aHUS?
- Yes
- Are you medical personnel or an aHUS researcher with an interest in aHUS issues?
- No
- My child ( or myself as a patient) is best described as:
- Factor H (CFH) /Protein (Gene)
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- At 11:51pm on February 6, 2011, Linda Burke said…
Hi Jooste,
Hope everything is fine since your last email. Best wishes, Linda
- At 12:04pm on March 10, 2010, Cheryl Biermann said…
- Oh, so sweet. Thank you for sharing your story. You are in the right place, did you know our main researcher, Dr. Smith also has experience with Dense Deposit Disorder. It is good to have you here, perhaps this site will prove to be some comfort to you. Please join in and share as much as you would like, oh and welcome!
- At 1:08am on March 10, 2010, Svetlana Finley said…
- Love your son's pictures, he is soo cute!!! Is he still getting treatments?
- At 12:17am on March 10, 2010, Amy Swarbrick said…
- Sorry to hear about your son's factor H mutations. He is such a doll. My son Brody has a mutation in scr 13 of his factor H gene. Brody will be 2 on April 2nd. Welcome to the site.
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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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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.
more factoids...
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