Acute and fulminant Budd-Chiari syndrome in a well-anticoagulated patient with primary antiphospholipid syndrome [3]

Lupus

Volumn 14, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 979-980

  Castro, Inés ^a   Rios J J ^a   Iniesta, N ^a   Perez, I ^a   Robles, A ^a   Gil, A ^a  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO LA PAZ   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; PHOSPHOLIPID ANTIBODY;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; AGED; ANTIBODY TITER; ANTICOAGULATION; ANTIPHOSPHOLIPID SYNDROME; ASCITES; BUDD CHIARI SYNDROME; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEPATORENAL SYNDROME; HUMAN; INTERNATIONAL NORMALIZED RATIO; LETTER; LIVER PERFUSION; PARACENTESIS; PORTAL HYPERTENSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; THROMBOSIS;

ACENOCOUMAROL; ACUTE DISEASE; AGED; ANTICOAGULANTS; ANTIPHOSPHOLIPID SYNDROME; FEMALE; HEPATIC VEIN THROMBOSIS; HUMANS;

EID: 30644459486     PISSN: 09612033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1191/0961203305lu2243xx     Document Type: Letter

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