Mortality in the catastrophic antiphospholipid syndrome: Causes of death and prognostic factors

Autoimmunity Reviews

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 72-75

  Bucciarelli, Silvia ^a   Cervera, Ricard ^a   Espinosa, Gerard ^a   Gómez Puerta, José A ^a   Ramos Casals, Manuel ^a   Font, Josep ^a  

^a HOSPITAL CLÍNIC   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; CORTICOSTEROID; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN;

ANTICOAGULANT THERAPY; ANTIPHOSPHOLIPID SYNDROME; BRAIN; CAUSE OF DEATH; CORTICOSTEROID THERAPY; HEART; HUMAN; INFECTION; MORTALITY; PLASMAPHERESIS; PROGNOSIS; REGISTER; REVIEW; STROKE; SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS; TERMINAL DISEASE;

AGE OF ONSET; ANTIPHOSPHOLIPID SYNDROME; ARRHYTHMIA; CATASTROPHIC ILLNESS; CAUSE OF DEATH; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; HEART FAILURE, CONGESTIVE; HUMANS; INFECTION; LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS, SYSTEMIC; PROGNOSIS;

EID: 33751350251     PISSN: 15689972     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.autrev.2006.06.007     Document Type: Review

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