Numerous small vegetations revealing libman-sacks endocarditis in catastrophic antiphospholipid syndrome

Circulation

Volumn 116, Issue 20, 2007, Pages

  Yamamoto, Hideo ^a   Iwade, Tamaki ^a   Nakano, Ryuji ^a   Mohri, Masahiro ^a   Amari, Yoshifumi ^a   Noma, Mitsuru ^a  

^a KYUSHU KOSEI NENKIN HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARDIOLIPIN ANTIBODY; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; METHYLPREDNISOLONE;

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; ADULT; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ANTIPHOSPHOLIPID SYNDROME; AORTA VALVE; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BRAIN DISEASE; CARDIOMEGALY; CASE REPORT; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; ENDOCARDITIS; HEMIPARESIS; HEMODIALYSIS; HUMAN; LIBMAN SACKS ENDOCARDITIS; LUNG CONGESTION; MALE; MITRAL VALVE; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STROKE; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; THROMBOSIS; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY THROMBOSIS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FATALITY; HEART INFARCTION; MIDDLE AGED; RADIOGRAPHY; SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS;

ANTIPHOSPHOLIPID SYNDROME; AORTIC VALVE; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY THROMBOSIS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ENDOCARDITIS; FATAL OUTCOME; HUMANS; LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS, SYSTEMIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION;

EID: 36049030887     PISSN: 00097322     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.107.726943     Document Type: Article

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