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Rheumatology Advance Access originally published online on November 22, 2005
Rheumatology 2006 45(2):241-242; doi:10.1093/rheumatology/kei194
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LETTER TO THE EDITOR

Dementia associated with antiphospholipid antibodies

J. C. Adair

Neurology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, USA

Correspondence to: john.adair@med.va.gov

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SIR, Gomez-Puerta and colleagues [1] recently summarized the clinical and radiographic characteristics of dementia associated with the antiphospholipid syndrome. Their computer-assisted literature search failed to detect a group of patients we presented with dementia associated with Sneddon's syndrome (SS), most of whom expressed anticardiolipin antibody [2]. The presence of a hypercoagulable state implicates cerebral ischaemia as the pathophysiological mechanism. Clinical stroke, with abrupt . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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