Unusual case of nonbacterial thrombotic endocarditis attributable to primary antiphospholipid syndrome

Circulation

Volumn 122, Issue 12, 2010, Pages

  Vinales, Karyne L ^a   Gopalan, Radha S ^a   Lanza, Louis A ^a   Lester, Steven J ^a   Chaliki, Hari P ^a  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; LUPUS ANTICOAGULANT;

ADULT; ANTICOAGULANT THERAPY; ANTIPHOSPHOLIPID SYNDROME; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIABETES MELLITUS; ENDOCARDITIS; FIBROELASTOMA; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MITRAL VALVE REGURGITATION; NONBACTERIAL THROMBOTIC ENDOCARDITIS; OPEN HEART SURGERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; BLOOD; COMPLICATION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; ISCHEMIC ATTACK, TRANSIENT; MIDDLE AGED; THROMBOSIS;

ANTIPHOSPHOLIPID SYNDROME; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ENDOCARDITIS; HUMANS; ISCHEMIC ATTACK, TRANSIENT; LUPUS COAGULATION INHIBITOR; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; THROMBOSIS;

EID: 77957274978     PISSN: 00097322     EISSN: 15244539     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.110.954032     Document Type: Article

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