Diffuse large and small bowel necrosis in catastrophic antiphospholipid syndrome

European Journal of Gastroenterology and Hepatology

Volumn 18, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 1011-1014

  Bachmeyer, Claude ^a   Barrier, Alain ^a   Frazier, Aline ^a   Fulgencio, Jean Pierre ^a   Lecomte, Isabelle ^a   Grateau, Gilles ^a   Callard, Patrice ^a  

^a HÔPITAL TENON   (France)

Author keywords

Catastrophic antiphospholipid syndrome; Large bowel necrosis; Small bowel necrosis

Indexed keywords

ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; HEPARIN; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; STEROID;

AGED; ANTIPHOSPHOLIPID SYNDROME; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL OCCLUSION; CASE REPORT; COLON RESECTION; DISSEMINATED INTRAVASCULAR CLOTTING; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; FIBROMUSCULAR DYSPLASIA; HEMOFILTRATION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTESTINE ISCHEMIA; INTESTINE NECROSIS; LARGE INTESTINE; MESENTERIC ARTERY; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; PLASMAPHERESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS; SKIN LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS; SMALL INTESTINE; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; THROMBOSIS; VASCULITIS;

AGED; ANTIPHOSPHOLIPID SYNDROME; CATASTROPHIC ILLNESS; COLON; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTESTINE, SMALL; LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS, SYSTEMIC; NECROSIS;

EID: 33747036908     PISSN: 0954691X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.meg.0000230085.45674.84     Document Type: Article

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