A case of catastrophic anti phospholipid syndrome with superimposed aspergillus infection
Abstract
Catastrophic anti phospholipid syndrome or CAPS for short, is a rare, devastating form of antiphospholipid syndrome that is characterized by successive multiple thrombi and multiorgan failure. One of the complications of antiphospholipid syndrome is nonbacterial thrombotic endocarditis or marantic endocarditis. Due to the nonspecific presentation of multiorgan failure it is difficult to have an early diagnosis. We are presenting a case of catastrophic anti phospholipid syndrome with superimposed aspergillus infection
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Asherson R.A., Cervera R., de Groot P.G., et al: Catastrophic antiphospholipid syndrome: international consensus statement on classification criteria and treatment guidelines. Lupus 2003; 12: pp. 530-534. 10.1191/0961203303lu394oa
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Asherson RA, Cervera R. Catastrophic antiphospholipid syndrome. Curr Opin Hematol. 2000;7(5):325–9. 10.1097/00005792-199805000-00005
MarcPineton de Chambruna, Romaric Larcher, FrédéricPèned, et al: CAPS criteria fail to identify most severely-ill thrombotic antiphospholipid syndrome patients requiring intensive care unit admission. Journal of Autoimmunity. Volume 103, September 2019, 102292. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaut.2019.06.003
Cervera R, Piette JC, Font J, Khamashta MA, et al: Antiphospholipid syndrome: clinical and immunologic manifestations and patterns of disease expression in a cohort of 1,000 patients. Arthritis Rheum. 2002;46(4):1019. https://doi.org/10.1002/art.10187
Andreoli L, Chighizola CB, Banzato A, et al. Estimated frequency of antiphospholipid antibodies in patients with pregnancy morbidity, stroke, myocardial infarction, and deep vein thrombosis: a critical review of the literature. Arthritis Care Res (Hoboken). 2013 Nov;65(11):1869-73. https://doi.org/10.1002/acr.22066
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Yegneswaran Prakash P, Pandit V, Rao SP: Fulminant antiphospholipid antibody syndrome complicated by Aspergillus tracheobronchitis. Medical Mycology Case Reports Volume 1, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 99-102. 10.1016/j.mmcr.2012.10.003
Nayef M. Kazzaz, W. Joseph McCune, and Jason S. Knight: Treatment of catastrophic antiphospholipid syndrome. Curr Opin Rheumatol. 2016 May; 28(3): 218–227. DOI10.1097/BOR.0000000000000269
Bucciarelli S, Espinosa G, Cervera R, et al. Mortality in the catastrophic antiphospholipid syndrome: causes of death and prognostic factors in a series of 250 patients. Arthritis Rheum. 2006;54:2568–2576. https://doi.org/10.1002/art.22018
Berman H, Rodríguez-Pintó I, Cervera R,et al: Rituximab use in the catastrophic antiphospholipid syndrome: descriptive analysis of the CAPS registry patients receiving rituximab. Autoimmun Rev. 2013 Sep; 12(11):1085-90. DOI 10.1016/j.autrev.2013.05.004
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2022-02-06
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LINGAS, Elvina; LUCIO PAREDES, Maria del Mar.
A case of catastrophic anti phospholipid syndrome with superimposed aspergillus infection.
International Archives of Medicine, [S.l.], v. 15, feb. 2022.
ISSN 1755-7682.
Available at: <http://imedicalpublisher.com/ojs/index.php/iam/article/view/2944>. Date accessed: 01 june 2023.
doi: https://doi.org/10.3823/2637.
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