An 84 year-old woman was admitted because of sepsis, thrombocytopenia, anaemia and acute renal failure that required hemodialysis. The diagnostic tests performed during hospitalization showed a severe urinary tract infection due to Enterococcus faecalis, resulting in mild sepsis. This infection was responsible for acute tubular necrosis and thrombotic microangiopathy, in a clinical context of difficult differential diagnosis and hemolytic-uremic syndrome.
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