Lupus anticoagulant and ANCA associated thrombotic vasculopathy due to cocaine contaminated with levamisole: A case report and review of the literature

Journal of Thrombosis and Thrombolysis

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 7-10

  Gulati, Shuchi ^a   Donato, Anthony A ^a,b  

^a READING HOSPITAL AND MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cocaine contaminant; Levamisole; Lupus anticoagulant; Thrombotic vasculopathy

Indexed keywords

AZATHIOPRINE; COCAINE; GABAPENTIN; LEVAMISOLE; LEVOTHYROXINE; LISINOPRIL; LUPUS ANTICOAGULANT; NEUTROPHIL CYTOPLASMIC ANTIBODY; PHOSPHOLIPID ANTIBODY; PREDNISONE; RITUXIMAB;

BACK; BIOPSY; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COCAINE DEPENDENCE; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE DURATION; DRUG CONTAMINATION; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; DRUG EXPOSURE; DRUG USE; DYSPNEA; EAR; HEMATOCRIT; HEMATURIA; HUMAN; KIDNEY BIOPSY; KIDNEY FAILURE; LABORATORY TEST; LEUKOPENIA; LUPUS VULGARIS; MALE; MEDICAL HISTORY; PARTIAL THROMBOPLASTIN TIME; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEINURIA; PURPURA; RAPIDLY PROGRESSIVE GLOMERULONEPHRITIS; REPEATED DRUG DOSE; REVIEW; SKIN DEFECT; THIGH; THROMBOSIS; URINALYSIS; VASCULAR DISEASE; VASCULITIS;

ADJUVANTS, IMMUNOLOGIC; ANTI-NEUTROPHIL CYTOPLASMIC ANTIBODY-ASSOCIATED VASCULITIS; ANTIBODIES, ANTINEUTROPHIL CYTOPLASMIC; COCAINE; DOPAMINE UPTAKE INHIBITORS; HUMANS; LEVAMISOLE; LUPUS COAGULATION INHIBITOR; MALE; THROMBOSIS;

EID: 84862769129     PISSN: 09295305     EISSN: 1573742X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11239-012-0711-0     Document Type: Review

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