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- Title
ANTIPHOSPHOLIPID ANTIBODY SYNDROME: DIFFUSE ALVEOLAR HEMORRHAGE AND LIBMAN-SACKS ENDOCARDITIS IN THE ABSENCE OF PRIOR THROMBOTIC EVENTS.
- Authors
Hambly, Nathan; Sekhon, Suneet; McIvor, R. Andrew
- Abstract
The article describes the case of a 35-year-old mother from El Salvador with antiphospholipid antibody syndrome. She has a two-day history of pronounced dyspnea and hemoptysis and had been diagnosed with adult-onset epilepsy and had undergone mitral valve replacement (MVR) for severe presumed rheumatic mitral stenosis. She underwent induction therapy with pulse-dose corticosteroids and intravenous (IV) cyclophosphamide with rapid clinical and radiographic improvement.
- Subjects
PHOSPHOLIPID antibodies; AUTOANTIBODIES; ADRENOCORTICAL hormones; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; ANTIRHEUMATIC agents
- Publication
Ulster Medical Journal, 2014, Vol 83, Issue 1, p47
- ISSN
0041-6193
- Publication type
Case Study