Is clubbing a feature of the anti-phospholipid antibody syndrome?

Postgrad Med J. 1993 Sep;69(815):748-50. doi: 10.1136/pgmj.69.815.748.

Abstract

A patient with the anti-phospholipid antibody syndrome and digital clubbing is described. No recognized cause for the clubbing was found. It is suggested that platelet aggregation and microthrombi formation as a result of anti-phospholipid antibody may be involved in the pathogenesis of the digital clubbing. This may be a new feature of the anti-phospholipid antibody.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Antiphospholipid Syndrome / complications*
  • Fingers / pathology
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Middle Aged
  • Osteoarthropathy, Secondary Hypertrophic / blood
  • Osteoarthropathy, Secondary Hypertrophic / etiology*
  • Osteoarthropathy, Secondary Hypertrophic / pathology
  • Platelet Aggregation / physiology