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[Catastrophic antiphospholipid syndrome: CAPS].
Antiphospholipid syndrome (APS) is well known as an autoimmune thrombotic syndrome with recurrent thromboses. In APS, thromboses occurs both artery and vein, and from large to micro vessels. In contrast, so called catastrophic antiphospholipid syndrome, CAPS, develops multiple thromboses at microvessels mainly within a few weeks and induces to poor prognosis. CAPS often occurs in patients with ...
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متن کاملCatastrophic antiphospholipid syndrome (CAPS).
Catastrophic antiphospholipid syndrome (CAPS) is a very severe variant of the classic APS, characterised by clinical evidence of multiple organ involvement developing over a very short period of time, histopathological evidence of multiple small vessel occlusions and laboratory confirmation of the presence of antiphospholipid antibodies (aPL), usually in high titre. Although patients with catas...
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Antiphospholipid syndrome (APS) is an autoimmune disease with clinical manifestations of arterial and venous thrombosis, concomitant fetal loss and the presence of antiphospholipid antibodies (APLA). This report focuses on the challenges of optimal treatment involving plasma exchange and intravenous human immunoglobulin infusions that is administered in patients with catastrophic APS (CAPS). CA...
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This paper reports one case of successfully treated patients suffering from a rare entity, the catastrophic antiphospholipid syndrome (CAPS). Management of this patient is discussed in detail.
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Case Reports in Rheumatology
سال: 2016
ISSN: 2090-6889,2090-6897
DOI: 10.1155/2016/4161439