Livedo, dementia, thrombocytopenia, and endotheliitis without antiphospholipid antibodies: Seronegative antiphospholipid-like syndrome

Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology

Volumn 61, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1076-1078

  Duval, Arnaud ^a   Darnige, Luc ^b   Glowacki, François ^a   Copin, Marie Christine ^a   Martin De Lassalle, Elisabeth ^a   Delaporte, Emmanuel ^a   Auxenfants, Eric ^c  

^a Centre Hospitalier Régional Universitaire   (United States)

^b HÔPITAL EUROPÉEN GEORGES POMPIDOU   (France)

^c CENTRE HOSPITALIER DE ROUBAIX   (France)

Author keywords

antiphospholipid syndrome; biopsy; Hughes syndrome; kidney; livedo; seronegative; skin; Sneddon

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; CREATINE KINASE; FATTY ACID BINDING PROTEIN; HOMOCYSTEINE; LOW MOLECULAR WEIGHT HEPARIN; LUPUS ANTICOAGULANT; PHOSPHOLIPID ANTIBODY;

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ANTIPHOSPHOLIPID SYNDROME; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL OCCLUSION; BONE MARROW BIOPSY; CASE REPORT; CREATINE KINASE BLOOD LEVEL; DEMENTIA; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; ENDOTHELIUM LESION; FEMALE; HUMAN; KIDNEY BIOPSY; LABORATORY TEST; LIVEDO RETICULARIS; MICROANGIOPATHY; MITRAL VALVE REGURGITATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OCCLUSIVE ARTERIOLOPATHY; PARTIAL THROMBOPLASTIN TIME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEINURIA; SERONEGATIVE ANTIPHOSPHOLIPID LIKE SYNDROME; SKIN BIOPSY; SKIN DEFECT; SNEDDON SYNDROME; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ANTIBODIES, ANTIPHOSPHOLIPID; ANTIPHOSPHOLIPID SYNDROME; ARTERIAL OCCLUSIVE DISEASES; DEMENTIA; ENDOTHELIUM, VASCULAR; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIVEDO RETICULARIS; MIDDLE AGED; SNEDDON SYNDROME; THROMBOCYTOPENIA;

EID: 71849119602     PISSN: 01909622     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jaad.2008.12.046     Document Type: Article

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