Adrenal involvement in the antiphospholipid syndrome clinical and immunologic characteristics of 86 patients

Medicine

Volumn 82, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 106-118

  Espinosa, Gerard ^a   Santos, Eugénia ^a   Cervera, Ricard ^a   Piette, Jean Charles ^b   De la Red, Gloria ^a   Gil, Víctor ^a   Font, Josep ^a   Couch, Robert ^c   Ingelmo, Miguel ^a   Asherson, Ronald A ^d  

^a HOSPITAL CLÍNIC   (Spain)

^b PITIÉ SALPÊTRIÈRE HOSPITAL   (France)

^c Pediatric Endocrinology   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; ANTITHROMBOCYTIC AGENT; CARDIOLIPIN ANTIBODY; CORTICOSTEROID; CORTICOTROPIN; FLUDROCORTISONE; HYDROCORTISONE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G ANTIBODY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M ANTIBODY; LUPUS ANTICOAGULANT; PHOSPHOLIPID ANTIBODY; PREDNISONE; TETRACOSACTIDE; WARFARIN;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADOLESCENT; ADRENAL HEMORRHAGE; ADRENAL INSUFFICIENCY; ADULT; AGED; ANTIBODY TITER; ANTICOAGULATION; ANTIPHOSPHOLIPID SYNDROME; ARTICLE; ASTHENIA; CHILD; CLINICAL FEATURE; CORTICOTROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; DEATH; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FATIGUE; FEMALE; FEVER; FOLLOW UP; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HORMONE SUBSTITUTION; HUMAN; HYDROCORTISONE BLOOD LEVEL; HYPOTENSION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INFARCTION; LETHARGY; MALE; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDLINE; MENTAL HEALTH; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; NAUSEA; PLASMAPHERESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROVOCATION TEST; SCREENING; SYMPTOM; SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS; THROMBOSIS; VOMITING;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADOLESCENT; ADRENAL GLANDS; ADRENAL INSUFFICIENCY; ADULT; AGED; ANTIBODIES, ANTICARDIOLIPIN; ANTICOAGULANTS; ANTIPHOSPHOLIPID SYNDROME; CHILD; FEMALE; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN ISOTYPES; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; LUPUS COAGULATION INHIBITOR; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PLASMAPHERESIS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0037340571     PISSN: 00257974     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00005792-200303000-00005     Document Type: Article

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