OBJECTIVES To report a rare case of moyamoya syndrome with primary antiphospholipid syndrome (APS). CLINICAL PRESENTATION AND INTERVENTION A 41-year-old woman was admitted with sudden onset of left-sided hemiparesis. Magnetic resonance imaging and magnetic resonance angiography of the brain showed characteristic features of moyamoya vessels. Laboratory investigations revealed raised levels of...

drome (APLS) may present with a catastrophic condition characterized by multiple vascular occlusions that often result in death if appropriate treatment is not quickly applied. In the great majority of cases, patients with catastrophic APLS show a spontaneous tendency to develop microvascular thrombosis that affects multiple organs. However, arterial reactivity leading to acute thrombosis after...

objectives this report describes the indication, histopathological patterns, and epidemiology of renal diseases in children in india. patients and methods this is a single-center study on renal biopsies performed between january 2008 and december 2013 in 346 children (age ≤ 14 years). results eleven (3.17%) biopsies were inadequate, and 335 biopsies were considered for analysis. the mean age wa...