[Mortality due to heart involvement in the catastrophic antiphospholipid syndrome].

Autor: Obón Azuara B; Servicio de Medicina Intensiva, Hospital Clínico Universitario de Zaragoza, Zaragoza, Spain. blankaobona@yahoo.es, Ortas Nadal MR, Gutiérrez Cía I, Bustamante Rodríguez R, Velilla Soriano C, Villanueva Anadón B
Jazyk: Spanish; Castilian
Zdroj: Anales de medicina interna (Madrid, Spain : 1984) [An Med Interna] 2008 May; Vol. 25 (5), pp. 229-30.
Abstrakt: Catastrophic antiphospolipid syndrome (CAPS) is extremely rare antiphospolipid syndrome (APS) variety associated to higher mortality. When heart involvement appears has worsening pronostic. We reported a CAPS case, possibily afterward sting wasp triggering, with acute heart failure during evolution. The patient died despite angiographic stents, anticoagulation, corticoids and plasmaphereses treatment carried out.
Databáze: MEDLINE