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- Title
Recurrent stroke due to antiphospholipid syndrome remitted by immunotherapy, not by anticoagulation therapy: A case report and literature review.
- Authors
Park, Jin-Mo; Eah, Kyung
- Abstract
The article describes the case of a 43-year-old woman with recurrent stroke due to antiphospholipid syndrome remitted by immunotherapy. Magnetic resonance imaging of the brain showed embolic infarctions in several vessel territories. The woman was admitted because of new infarction on account of right-hand weakness. Steroid pulse therapy was used for five days to treat hematologic abnormality and arterial thrombosis.
- Subjects
ANTICOAGULANTS; ANTIPHOSPHOLIPID syndrome; IMMUNOTHERAPY; STROKE; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; VENOUS thrombosis; DISEASE relapse; MUSCLE weakness; INTERNATIONAL normalized ratio; LACUNAR stroke
- Publication
Annals of Indian Academy of Neurology, 2019, Vol 22, Issue 2, p250
- ISSN
0972-2327
- Publication type
Case Study
- DOI
10.4103/aian.AIAN_433_18