HELLP syndrome, multiple liver infarctions, and intrauterine fetal death in a patient with systemic lupus erythematosus and antiphospholipid syndrome

Internal Medicine

Volumn 48, Issue 17, 2009, Pages 1555-1558

  Wada, Yoko ^a   Sakamaki, Yuichi ^a   Kobayashi, Daisuke ^a   Ajiro, Junya ^a,b   Moro, Hiroshi ^a   Murakami, Shuichi ^a   Ooki, Izumi ^a   Kikuchi, Akira ^a   Takakuwa, Koichi ^a   Tanaka, Kenichi ^a   Sato, Takehiro ^c   Nakano, Masaaki ^d   Narita, Ichiei ^a  

^a NIIGATA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICAL AND DENTAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^b Niigata Prefectural Central Hospital   (Japan)

^c Kitashiro Clinic of Family Practice   (Japan)

^d NIIGATA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Antiphospholipid syndrome (APS); Catastrophic antiphospholipid syndrome (CAPS); HELLP syndrome; Multiple liver infarction; Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE)

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CORTICOSTEROID; FAMOTIDINE; HEPARIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; NAFAMSTAT; PREDNISOLONE;

ABNORMAL LABORATORY RESULT; ADULT; ANTIPHOSPHOLIPID SYNDROME; ARTICLE; BLOOD EXAMINATION; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTINUOUS INFUSION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; DISSEMINATED INTRAVASCULAR CLOTTING; DRUG DOSE INCREASE; ECHOGRAPHY; EPIGASTRIC PAIN; FEMALE; FETUS DEATH; FEVER; FOLLOW UP; HELLP SYNDROME; HEMATURIA; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HYPOCOMPLEMENTEMIA; LABOR INDUCTION; LEUKOCYTOSIS; LIVER DYSFUNCTION; LIVER INJURY; LIVER ISCHEMIA; LOW DRUG DOSE; PLACENTA DISORDER; PLEURA EFFUSION; SECOND TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS; THROMBOCYTE TRANSFUSION; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; THROMBOSIS; TREATMENT DURATION; URINALYSIS; VOMITING;

ADULT; ANTIPHOSPHOLIPID SYNDROME; FEMALE; FETAL DEATH; HELLP SYNDROME; HUMANS; LIVER DISEASES; LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS, SYSTEMIC; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS;

EID: 70349498841     PISSN: 09182918     EISSN: 13497235     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2169/internalmedicine.48.2284     Document Type: Article

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