Context. Antiphospholipid antibodies syndrome is an autoimmune disorder that is characterized by the association between presence of antiphospholipid antibodies and risk of thrombosis and/or pregnancy morbidity. Objectives. To systematically review the evidence for primary prophylaxis in patients with antiphospholipids antibodies syndrome or APS with or without other traditional risk factors of...

BACKGROUND Recurrent pregnancy loss is a major health problem effecting 1(see symbol) 2% of women of reproductive age. Its causes range from chromosomal abnormalities to endocrinological factors and thrombophilia related factors. Treating thrombophilias especially antiphospholipid syndrome with low dose aspirin and low molecular weight heparin improves foetal outcome. This study will add local ...

Our goal in the present work was to determine whether male patients with untreated hypogonadism have an increased risk of developing rheumatic/autoimmune disease (RAD), and, if so, whether there is a relation to the type of hypogonadism. We carried out neuroendocrine, genetic, and rheumatologic investigations in 13 such patients and 10 healthy male 46,XY normogonadic control subjects. Age and b...

A 28-year-old right-handed male presented in December 2012 with complaints of numbness in the right arm and leg. Neurological examination revealed right hemiparesis and hemihypoesthesia. He had a history of epilepsy, and his mother had Sjogren syndrome. He reported that the numbness in the right arm and leg had started 2 years ago and he was then diagnosed with vasculitis, and thus, was adminis...

Modification of low density lipoprotein (LDL) particles due to oxidation, glycation and binding of advanced glycation end-products (AGEs) or malondialdehyde (MDA, a final product of lipid peroxidation) is considered most important in the process of atherogenesis. Oxidatively modified LDL are distinguished by another receptor type, which was discovered on the surface of macrophages and was calle...

OBJECTIVE Pulmonary arterial hypertension (PH) is a progressive disease with a poor prognosis that ultimately leads to right ventricular failure and death. The pathogenesis of severe PH seems to be related to inflammatory responses and coagulation disturbances. Many diseases can develop PH in their course, thus aggravating their outcome. The objective was to investigate the values of vascular e...

Interstitial lung disease compatible with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) developed in 19 previously healthy patients. Although interstitial and/or honeycomb parenchymal fibrosis was present in all, there were patchy areas of paucicellular septal capillary injury along with corroborative direct immunofluorescent evidence of a humorally mediated microvascular injury syndrome. Significantly e...

Background Systemic Lupus Erythematosus represents the prototype of autoimmune systemic disease, its etiology involves aberrant interactions between genetic, immunological and environmental factors, affecting multiple organs systems; about a third patients present ocular alterations, with variable degree severity from mild clinical manifestations involving external anterior segments, to severe ...

Although pulmonary arteriovenous malformation is not a common condition, it is one of the causes of paradoxical embolism presenting with neurological manifestation. Therefore, pulmonary arteriovenous malformation should be considered in any patient with an arterial embolism, especially patients with cerebrovascular accident from an unidentified source. We report a case of paradoxical embolism o...