"Possible primary antiphospholipid syndrome" with concurrent diffuse alveolar hemorrhaging and libman-sacks endocarditis mimicking catastrophic antiphospholipid syndrome

Internal Medicine

Volumn 51, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 813-816

  Suzuki, Akitake ^a   Asazuma, Naoki ^a   Kikuchi, Eigo ^a   Kawanobe, Takeshi ^a   Horimoto, Yoshihiko ^a   Yokobari, Ryuichi ^a   Kotake, Shigeru ^b   Okai, Takahiro ^a  

^a Kawakita General Hospital   (Japan)

^b TOKYO WOMEN'S MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Antiphospholipid syndrome; Catastrophic antiphospholipid syndrome; Diffuse alveolar hemorrhage; Libman Sacks endocarditis; Multiple brain infarctions

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CEFTRIAXONE; CIPROFLOXACIN; HEPATITIS B SURFACE ANTIGEN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE; LAMIVUDINE; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; PREDNISOLONE; SURFACTANT PROTEIN D;

ADULT; ANTIPHOSPHOLIPID SYNDROME; AORTA VALVE DISEASE; BRAIN INFARCTION; BRONCHOSCOPY; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DEATH; DYSPNEA; ECHOGRAPHY; ENDOCARDITIS; FEMALE; HEPATITIS B; HUMAN; LIBMAN SACKS ENDOCARDITIS; LUNG HEMORRHAGE; LUNG INFILTRATE; PARTIAL THROMBOPLASTIN TIME; PLASMAPHERESIS; REVIEW; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; VENTILATOR; VENTILATOR ASSOCIATED PNEUMONIA; VIRUS LOAD;

ANTIPHOSPHOLIPID SYNDROME; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ENDOCARDITIS; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; LUNG DISEASES; LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS, SYSTEMIC; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 84859366467     PISSN: 09182918     EISSN: 13497235     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2169/internalmedicine.51.6592     Document Type: Review

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