antiphospholipid syndrome
Bilateral Renal Infarction in a Teenage Patient: A Case of “Transient” Antiphospholipid Syndrome?
... (SLE), antiphospholipid syndrome (APS), polyarteritis nodosa, mixed connective disease, and Behcet’s disease, contributing some of this disease burden as ...
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Intrauterine fetal deaths related to antiphospholipid syndrome: a descriptive study of 65 women
... APL: Antiphospholipid antibodies; APS: Antiphospholipid syndrome; APTT: Activated partial thromboplastin time; dRVVT: Dilute Russell ’ s viper venom time; HELLP: Hemolysis, elevated liver enzymes and ...
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Acute Thrombotic Occlusion of Right Coronary and Left Circumflex Coronary Arteries in a Patient with Antiphospholipid Syndrome: Successful Stent Implantation
... Acute myocardial infarction is not common among patients with this syndrome. In the literature, there are cases that are successfully treated by thrombolytic therapy, balloon angioplasty, and stenting but there is ...
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Antiphospholipid syndrome: state of the art on clinical practice guidelines
... Antiphospholipid syndrome (APS) is a systemic autoimmune disease with the highest prevalence in women of childbearing age, characterised by venous and/or arterial thrombosis, pregnancy complications and the ...
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Antiphospholipid syndrome in lupus retinopathy
... involvement. Antiphospholipid syndrome (APS) in lupus is usually associated with large vessel occlusions and needs prompt treatment with ...for antiphospholipid antibody (APA) and were treated with ...
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Thrombotic risk assessment in antiphospholipid syndrome: the role of new antibody specificities and thrombin generation assay
... Antiphospholipid syndrome (APS) is an autoimmune condition characterized by the presence of antiphospholipid antibodies (aPL) in subjects presenting with thrombosis and/or pregnancy ...Keywords: ...
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Amniotic fluid antiphospholipid antibodies: potential role in antiphospholipid syndrome-independent aberrant implantation process
... of antiphospholipid antibodies (aPL) at maternal-fetal interface has not been fully investigated, especially whether they are involved in physiological and pathological implantation conditions, in an ...
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CLINICAL SIGNIFICANCE OF ANTIPHOSPHOLIPID SYNDROME IN PREGNANCY WOMEN
... Further studies with larger sample size are required to gather more evidence regarding the significance of antiphospholipid syndrome in such cases. This study is worthy of further assessment because ...
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Successful Management of a Complicated Ulcer Caused by Autoimmune Vasculitis, with Sildenafil Citrate in a Patient with Primary Antiphospholipid Syndrome and Transient Steroid Induced Diabetes Mellitus: A Case Report and Literature Review
... Antiphospholipid syndrome (APS) is a prothrombotic condition that can affect both the venous circulation and the arterial system. The deep veins of the lower extremities and cerebral blood flow are the most ...
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Antiphospholipid syndrome; its implication in cardiovascular diseases: a review
... Antiphospholipid syndrome (APLS) [1,2] comprises clini- cal features such as arterial or venous thromboses and the detection of so-called antiphospholipid antibodies (aPL) as anticardiolipin ...
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Bleeding and thrombosis in a patient with primary antiphospholipid syndrome using norethisterone: a case report
... APS is an autoimmune multisystem disorder of recur- rent thrombosis and/or pregnancy losses that is associated with the presence of aPLs [2]. Primary antiphospholipid syndrome (PAPS) is the most common ...
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Plasmapheresis in a patient with antiphospholipid syndrome before living-donor kidney transplantation: a case report
... Case presentation: A 37-year-old Japanese female was scheduled to undergo a living-donor kidney transplant from her mother. At age 25 years, she experienced renal vein thrombosis, was diagnosed with ...
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Recurrent pulmonary embolism in a boy with antiphospholipid syndrome
... [19] Kim, W.J., Hong, Y.K. and Yoo, W.H. (2008) Epidural hematoma mimicking transverse myelitis in a patient with primary antiphospholipid syndrome. Rheumatology In- ternational, 28, 709-712. ...
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Antiphospholipid antibodies detected by line immunoassay differentiate among patients with antiphospholipid syndrome, with infections and asymptomatic carriers
... 2 Antiphospholipid antibody (aPL) positive sera tested by enzyme-linked immunosorbent immunoassay (ELISA) and line im- munoassay (LIA) in 61 patients with antiphospholipid syndrome (APS) and 146 ...
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Antiphospholipid syndrome
... Antiphospholipid syndrome is diagnosed when arterial or venous thrombosis or recurrent miscarriages occur in a person in whom laboratory tests for antiphospholipid antibodies (anticardiolipin anti- ...
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Antiphospholipid Syndrome: Multiple Manifestations in a Single Patient—A High Suspicion Is Still Needed
... cited. Antiphospholipid Syndrome (APS) is an autoimmune disorder with clinical and laboratory features of vascular thrombosis, pregnancy loss, and persistent antiphospholipid antibodies ...and ...
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Antiphospholipid Syndrome and Vascular Ischemic (Occlusive) Diseases: An Overview
... Antiphospholipid syndrome (APS) is primarily considered to be an autoimmune pathological condition that is also referred to as "Hughes syndrome". It is characterized by arterial and/or venous ...
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The Hyperferritinemic Syndrome: macrophage activation syndrome, Still’s disease, septic shock and catastrophic antiphospholipid syndrome
... There is increasing evidence that circulating ferritin levels may not only reflect an acute phase response but may play a critical role in inflammation [1]. Its secretion is regulated by pro-inflammatory cytokines and ...
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Indexes of nitric oxide system in experimental antiphospholipid syndrome
... antiphospholipid syndrome (aPS) is an autoimmune disease characterized by the presence of antibo- dies to negatively charged membrane phospholipids ...experimental antiphospholipid syndrome ...
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Management of the antiphospholipid syndrome
... Seronegative antiphospholipid syndrome and patients in whom the antiphospholipid antibody test turns negative There are a small number of patients with the classical features of APS but with ...
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