Early diagnosis and successful treatment of catastrophic antiphospholipid syndrome complicated by multiple organ failure

Japanese Journal of Clinical Immunology

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 24-30

  Inoue, Daichi ^a   Togami, Katsuhiro ^a   Shimoike, Norihiro ^a   Tamura, Ryo ^a   Imai, Yukihiro ^a   Kimura, Takaharu ^a   Shimoji, Sonoko ^a   Mori, Minako ^a   Nagai, Yuya ^a   Tabata, Sumie ^a   Matsushita, Akiko ^a   Nagai, Kenichi ^a   Takahashi, Takayuki ^a  

^a KOBE CITY MEDICAL CENTER GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Antiphosphatidylserine prothrombin complex antibodies; Autoimmune hemolytic anemia; Catastrophic antiphospholipid syndrome; Systemic thrombosis

Indexed keywords

ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; CORTICOSTEROID; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; PHOSPHATIDYLSERINE; PROTHROMBIN ANTIBODY;

ADULT; ANTIPHOSPHOLIPID SYNDROME; ARTERY THROMBOSIS; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; FEMALE; FEVER; HEMODIALYSIS; HEMOLYTIC ANEMIA; HUMAN; INTESTINE PERFORATION; KIDNEY FAILURE; LEUKOPENIA; LIVER DYSFUNCTION; MORTALITY; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; PERITONITIS; PLASMAPHERESIS; SPLEEN INFARCTION; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; THROMBOTIC THROMBOCYTOPENIC PURPURA; UNCONSCIOUSNESS;

ANTIPHOSPHOLIPID SYNDROME; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE;

EID: 77953673121     PISSN: 09114300     EISSN: 13497413     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2177/jsci.33.24     Document Type: Article

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