About the Authors

Matthieu Jamme

Affiliations Centre de Reference des Microangiopathies Thrombotiques, Hôpital Saint Antoine, AP-HP, Paris, France, Urgences Néphrologiques et Transplantation Rénale, Hôpital Tenon, AP-HP, Paris, France

Quentin Raimbourg

Affiliation Service de Néphrologie, Hôpital Bichat, AP-HP, Paris, France

Dominique Chauveau

Affiliations Centre de Reference des Microangiopathies Thrombotiques, Hôpital Saint Antoine, AP-HP, Paris, France, Service de Néphrologie-immunologie clinique, Hôpital Rangueil, Toulouse, France

Amélie Seguin

Affiliations Centre de Reference des Microangiopathies Thrombotiques, Hôpital Saint Antoine, AP-HP, Paris, France, Service de Réanimation Médicale, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Caen, Normandy, France

Claire Presne

Affiliations Centre de Reference des Microangiopathies Thrombotiques, Hôpital Saint Antoine, AP-HP, Paris, France, Service de Néphrologie - Médecine Interne, Hôpital Sud, Amiens, France

Pierre Perez

Affiliations Centre de Reference des Microangiopathies Thrombotiques, Hôpital Saint Antoine, AP-HP, Paris, France, Service de Néphrologie-Immunologie, Service de Réanimation, CHU Brabois, Nancy, France

Pierre Gobert

Affiliations Centre de Reference des Microangiopathies Thrombotiques, Hôpital Saint Antoine, AP-HP, Paris, France, Service de Médecine Interne et Néphrologie, Hôpital Général Henri Duffaut, Avignon, France

Alain Wynckel

Affiliations Centre de Reference des Microangiopathies Thrombotiques, Hôpital Saint Antoine, AP-HP, Paris, France, Service de Néphrologie, Hôpital Maison Blanche, Reims, France

François Provôt

Affiliations Centre de Reference des Microangiopathies Thrombotiques, Hôpital Saint Antoine, AP-HP, Paris, France, Service de Néphrologie, Hôpital Albert Calmette, Lille, France

Yahsou Delmas

Affiliations Centre de Reference des Microangiopathies Thrombotiques, Hôpital Saint Antoine, AP-HP, Paris, France, Service de Néphrologie-Transplantation-Dialyse, CHU de Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France

Christiane Mousson

Affiliations Centre de Reference des Microangiopathies Thrombotiques, Hôpital Saint Antoine, AP-HP, Paris, France, Service de Néphrologie, Dijon, France

Aude Servais

Affiliations Centre de Reference des Microangiopathies Thrombotiques, Hôpital Saint Antoine, AP-HP, Paris, France, Service de Néphrologie, Hôpital Necker-Enfants Malades, AP-HP, Paris, France

Laurence Vrigneaud

Affiliations Centre de Reference des Microangiopathies Thrombotiques, Hôpital Saint Antoine, AP-HP, Paris, France, Service de Médecine interne, Néphrologie et Médecine vasculaire, Centre hospitalier de Valenciennes, Valenciennes, France

Agnès Veyradier

Affiliations Centre de Reference des Microangiopathies Thrombotiques, Hôpital Saint Antoine, AP-HP, Paris, France, Service d'Hématologie Biologique, Hôpital Lariboisière, AP-HP, Paris, France

Eric Rondeau

Contributed equally to this work with: Eric Rondeau, Paul Coppo

Affiliations Centre de Reference des Microangiopathies Thrombotiques, Hôpital Saint Antoine, AP-HP, Paris, France, Urgences Néphrologiques et Transplantation Rénale, Hôpital Tenon, AP-HP, Paris, France

Paul Coppo

Contributed equally to this work with: Eric Rondeau, Paul Coppo

paul.coppo@aphp.fr

Affiliations Centre de Reference des Microangiopathies Thrombotiques, Hôpital Saint Antoine, AP-HP, Paris, France, Service d’Hématologie, Hôpital Saint Antoine, AP-HP, Paris, France

French Thrombotic Microangiopathies Reference Centre

The complete membership of the author group can be found in the Acknowledgments.

Competing Interests

Paul Coppo is a member of the advisory board for Alexion, Octapharma and Ablynx. Eric Rondeau is a member of the advisory board for Alexion. The others authors have declared that no competing interests exist. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: MJ PC ER. Data curation: PC. Formal analysis: MJ. Funding acquisition: PC. Investigation: MJ. Methodology: MJ PC ER. Project administration: PC ER. Resources: PC. Supervision: PC ER. Validation: MJ QR DC AS CP PP PG AW FP YD CM AS LV AV ER PC. Visualization: MJ QR DC AS CP PP PG AW FP YD CM AS LV AV ER PC. Writing – original draft: MJ PC. Writing – review & editing: MJ PC.