[The clinical syndrome associated with antiphospholipid antibodies. A diagnosis to be confirmed after a long follow-up]

Minerva Pediatr. 1995 Jan-Feb;47(1-2):39-41.
[Article in Italian]

Abstract

A clinical case of syndrome of antiphospholipid antibodies is reported. The patient is a 10-year-old girl with thrombophlebitis of the right leg associated with the presence of lupus-like anticoagulant antibodies. No secondary pathologies were found. It is not possible, anyway, to make a definitive differential diagnosis between primary and secondary forms of syndrome of antiphospholipid antibodies because of intermediate situations where antiphospholipid antibodies are associated with 2 or 3 ARA criteria for the diagnosis of lupus (lupus-like syndrome). A long term follow-up is therefore necessary.

Publication types

  • Case Reports
  • English Abstract

MeSH terms

  • Acenocoumarol / therapeutic use
  • Antibodies, Antiphospholipid*
  • Child
  • Female
  • Fibrinolytic Agents
  • Heparin / administration & dosage
  • Heparin / therapeutic use
  • Humans
  • Syndrome
  • Thrombophlebitis / diagnosis*
  • Thrombophlebitis / drug therapy

Substances

  • Antibodies, Antiphospholipid
  • Fibrinolytic Agents
  • calcium heparin
  • Heparin
  • Acenocoumarol