Treatment of antiphospholipid antibody syndrome

A Case of Gaucher\'s Disease with Recurrent Fetal Loss and Antiphospholipid Antibody Syndrome

ANTIPHOSPHOLIPID ANTIBODY SYNDROME-A CASE OF AORTIC VALVE INSUFFICIENCY

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.

P46: Optic Neuritis as the First Manifestation of the Primary Antiphospholipid Antibody Syndrome

Optic neuritis is commonly associated with diseases such as Multiple Sclerosis, infections, taking special drugs, etc. but recently we have observed a patient that presented retro bulbar optic neuritis as a manifestation of antiphospholipid syndrome. A 35 y/o young woman with the history of chickenpox admitted to the Qhaem hospital (Mashhad, Iran) with the c/o progressive pain and blurred visio...

Revisiting Beta 2 Glycoprotein I, the Major Autoantigen in the Antiphospholipid Syndrome

Beta 2 glycoprotein I (β2GPI) is a single chain 50 kDa highly glycosylated glycoprotein at an approximate concentration of 4 μM in cells. The abundance of this protein in plasma and its high state of preservation indicate the important role of this protein in mammalian. In addition, β2GPI has a particular structure in the fifth domain, and is categorized as the major antigen recognized by autoa...

معرفی و بررسی یک مورد بیمار مبتلا به سندرم آنتی فسفولیپید آنتی بادی در زمینه لوپوس سیستمیک، با تظاهر اولیه کره

Manifestation of chorea in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) and antiphospholipid antibody syndrome (APA synd.) is not common. Moreover, primary presentation of the disease with chorea is rare and only few such cases are reported in literature in recent years. We report here the case of a 28 year old woman who was first seen at the age of 10 with clinical manifestations of chorea...

گزارش یک مورد از هیپرتانسیون ترومبوآمبولیک پولمونر در جریان سندروم آنتی فسفولیپید اولیه

While pulmonary thromboembolism is common, thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension is very rare. The present case is a 35 year old woman with chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension, who presented with severe dyspnea and leg edema, following an earlier thrombotic event of 10 years earlier, after her her second childbearing. She also had a history of the first childbearing complicated with c...