Long-term treatment of antiphospholipid syndrome-associated cerebral arterial thromboses with intravenous immunoglobulin: A case report

Clinical Rheumatology

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 251-253

  Arabshahi, B ^a,b   Thompson, E D ^a   Smergel, E M ^a   Goldsmith, D P ^a  

^a DREXEL UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b The Center for Childhood Arthritis and Rheumatic Diseases   (United States)

Author keywords

Antiphospholipid antibody syndrome; Child; IVIG; Stroke

Indexed keywords

CARDIOLIPIN ANTIBODY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN A ANTIBODY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G ANTIBODY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M ANTIBODY; PHOSPHOLIPID ANTIBODY;

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ANTIBODY DETECTION; ANTIBODY TITER; ANTIPHOSPHOLIPID SYNDROME; ARTICLE; ATAXIC APHASIA; CASE REPORT; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FOLLOW UP; HEMIPARESIS; HEMIPLEGIA; HUMAN; HYPOTHYROIDISM; INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; LONG TERM CARE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MALE; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY OCCLUSION; MOYAMOYA DISEASE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OCCLUSIVE CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREATMENT DURATION; TREATMENT RESPONSE; TRISOMY 12;

ADOLESCENT; ANTIPHOSPHOLIPID SYNDROME; BRAIN; CEREBRAL ARTERIES; DOWN SYNDROME; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULINS, INTRAVENOUS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; THROMBOSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33845864422     PISSN: 07703198     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10067-005-0127-8     Document Type: Article

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