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Rheumatology Advance Access originally published online on April 19, 2005
Rheumatology 2005 44(7):948-949; doi:10.1093/rheumatology/keh645
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© The Author 2005. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the British Society for Rheumatology. All rights reserved. For Permissions, please email: journals.permissions@oupjournals.org

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Intracerebral arterial stenosis with neurological events associated with antiphospholipid syndrome

M. Wong, S. Sangle, W. Jan, G. R. V. Hughes and D. P. D'Cruz

Lupus Research Unit, The Rayne Institute, St Thomas' Hospital, London SE1 7EH, UK

Correspondence to: D. P. D'Cruz. E-mail: david.d'cruz@kcl.ac.uk

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SIR, Antiphospholipid (Hughes) syndrome (APS) is a prothrombotic disorder and is a common cause of venous and arterial thrombosis. More recently, arterial stenosis, particularly affecting the renal and coeliac arteries, has been observed. We present two patients with APS presenting with neurological manifestations secondary to intracerebral artery stenosis.

A 43-yr-old female woke up with severe headache lasting all day, and then developed right-sided visual disturbance and left arm numbness progressing to left-sided weakness. CT and MRI of the brain revealed an ischaemic stroke . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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