Severe limb necrosis: Primary thrombotic microangiopathy or "seronegative" catastrophic antiphospholipid syndrome? A diagnostic dilemma

Clinical Rheumatology

Volumn 26, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 1737-1740

  Lazurova, I ^a   MacEjova, Z ^a   Tomkova, Z ^a   Remenar, F ^a   Boor, A ^a   Lazur, J ^a   Roland, R ^a   Rovensky, J ^b   Asherson, R A ^c  

^a University Ko ice   (Slovakia)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF RHEUMATIC DISEASES   (Slovakia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Cerebral hemorrhage; Hyperbaric oxygen; Prostacycline; Seronegative CAPS; TTP HUS syndrome

Indexed keywords

ANTITHROMBIN III; BENZODIAZEPINE; BILIRUBIN; CREATINE KINASE; CREATININE; FIBRINOGEN; FRESH FROZEN PLASMA; HEMOGLOBIN; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE; LOW MOLECULAR WEIGHT HEPARIN; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; PROSTACYCLIN; URAPIDIL; OXYGEN;

ADULT; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ANTIPHOSPHOLIPID SYNDROME; ARTICLE; BLOOD ANALYSIS; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; CASE REPORT; CONTINUOUS INFUSION; CREATINE KINASE BLOOD LEVEL; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; CYANOSIS; DIARRHEA; DRUG USE; ECHOGRAPHY; HEADACHE; HEMATOCRIT; HEMATOLOGY; HEMODIALYSIS; HEMOLYTIC ANEMIA; HUMAN; HYPERBARIC OXYGEN; HYPERBILIRUBINEMIA; HYPOCOAGULABILITY; JAUNDICE; KIDNEY FAILURE; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE BLOOD LEVEL; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LIMB AMPUTATION; LIMB PAIN; MALE; NECROSIS; NEUTROPHIL COUNT; PAIN; PLASMAPHERESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; RETICULOCYTE COUNT; SPINAL PAIN; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; THROMBOTIC THROMBOCYTOPENIC PURPURA; VOMITING; ANEMIA; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FATALITY; GASTROENTERITIS; LIMB; METABOLISM; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; PATHOLOGY; THROMBOSIS; VASCULAR DISEASE;

ANEMIA; ANTIPHOSPHOLIPID SYNDROME; CEREBRAL HEMORRHAGE; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; EPOPROSTENOL; EXTREMITIES; FATAL OUTCOME; GASTROENTERITIS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NECROSIS; OXYGEN; THROMBOSIS; VASCULAR DISEASES;

EID: 37649006926     PISSN: 07703198     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10067-006-0487-8     Document Type: Article

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