Cardiac Valve Diseases and Antiphospholipid Syndrome
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Cardiac valve diseases and antiphospholipid syndrome.
Antiphospholipid syndrome (APS) has been recognized as one of the most commontypes of thrombophilia (1). Its main clinical features are arterial/venous thrombosis and pregnancy loss associated with placenta thrombosis. However, other heterogeneous clinical manifestations may be associated with APS, such as thrombocytopenia, haemolytic anemia, neurological impairment and pulmonary hypertension (...
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A 31 year old woman was hospitalized for evaluation of aortic valve insufficiency and her present cardiac status. Clinical and paraclinical findings strongly suggested the presence of a collagen vascular inflammatory processprecisely, the antiphospholipid antibody syndrome (APS), with systemic lupus erythematosus as the underlying disease.
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The antiphospholipid syndrome (APLS) is a complex autoimmune disease often connected to systemic lupus erythematodes. Main features are thromboses, fetal loss and specific antibodies. The involved autoantibodies are directed against plasma proteins such as beta2glycoprotein1 (beta2GPI) or prothrombin which depend on negatively charged phospholipids. Direct antibodies against phospholipids are o...
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of APLS are cerebrovascular accident, transient ischemic attack, seizures, chorea, migraine, pseudotumor cerebri, visual disturbances and dementia. Cutaneous features include livedo reticularis, ulcers, infarcts and superficial thrombophlebitis. These patients may develop renal arterial or venous thrombosis, acute or chronic renal failure, hemolytic anemia or thrombocytopenia.[15-17] Catastroph...
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عنوان ژورنال: Internal Medicine
سال: 2000
ISSN: 0918-2918,1349-7235
DOI: 10.2169/internalmedicine.39.446