A patient who developed chronic renal failure secondary to the haemolytic uraemic syndrome subsequently developed life threatening microangiopathic haemolytic anaemia following renal transplantation. Transplant nephrectomy was necessary to prevent the progression ofthrombocytopenia and associated pulmonary haemorrhage.
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