Haemolytic Anaemia with Acute Renal Disease

Abstract

Haemolytic anaemia is a well-recognized complication of chronic renal failure, but in patients with acute renal disease it is a much less frequent occurrence. The earliest reports were by Hensley (1952), who described 3 patients with glomerulonephritis complicated by haemolytic anaemia, and by Dacie, Mollison, Richardson, Selwyn, and Shapiro (1953), whose patient with atypical congenital haemolytic anaemia' was found at necropsy to have nephritis'. Attention was drawn to this 'Haematolytisch-uramische Syndrome' by Gasser, Gautier, Steck, Siebenmann, and Oechslin (1955), who described 5 patients. Since then a further 59 case reports have been recorded (Fison,