How is ST HUS treated
What are the treatment options for patients with ST HUS?
The mainstay of treatment for patients with ST-HUS is supportive care. This entails aggressive supportive care including hydration with intravenous fluids, supporting the anemia, and managing the renal failure with renal replacement therapy, if needed.
There are no randomized clinical trial data to support plasmapheresis or eculizumab, but they have been used in severe ST-HUS with reported success, especially in Germany after the E. coli O157:H7 outbreak from contaminated bean sprouts in 2011
