Reversible posterior leukoencephalopathy syndrome in catastrophic antiphospholipid syndrome

Cerebrovascular Diseases

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 141-143

  Renard, Dimitri ^a   Dutray, Anais ^a   Le Quellec, Alain ^b   Milhaud, Didier ^a  

^a GUI DE CHAULIAC HOSPITAL   (France)

^b HÔPITAL SAINT ELOI   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; COUMARIN; HEPARIN; HYDROCORTISONE; HYDROXYCHLOROQUINE; NICARDIPINE;

ACUTE CHOLECYSTITIS; ADRENAL HEMORRHAGE; ADRENAL INSUFFICIENCY; ADULT; ANTIPHOSPHOLIPID SYNDROME; ARTICLE; BLINDNESS; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; CASE REPORT; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; DRUG SUBSTITUTION; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; FEMALE; HEADACHE; HUMAN; HYDROCORTISONE BLOOD LEVEL; HYPERTENSION; LEUKOENCEPHALOPATHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUBDURAL HEMATOMA; SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS; THROMBOPLASTIN TIME;

ANTICOAGULANTS; ANTIPHOSPHOLIPID SYNDROME; BLINDNESS; BRAIN DISEASES; FEMALE; HEMIPLEGIA; HEPARIN; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS, SYSTEMIC; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MIDDLE AGED; THROMBOSIS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 34347400850     PISSN: 10159770     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000103618     Document Type: Article

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