Hemolytic uremic syndrome after chemotherapy with gemcitabine and taxotere: a case report.

A case of hemolytic uremic syndrome is reported in a female patient affected by metastatic breast carcinoma receiving chemotherapy with gemcitabine and docetaxel. Up to now this is the first case that has been reported in the medical literature in patients treated with docetaxel (taxotere)and gemcitabine. The patient developed hemolytic uremic syndrome after the third cycle of chemotherapy. She was treated with diuretics, steroids, antibiotics, antifungal drugs, erythropoietin and fluid replacement. The patient underwest dialysis, and survived the hemolytic uremic syndrome. It was not possible to ascertain if the hemolytic uremic syndrome was related to the chemotheraputic treatment or the cancer itself.