Atypical Presentation of Antiphospholipid Syndrome: A Case Report

We report an atypical presentation of Antiphospholipid syndrome (APS) with concomitant subhyaloid hemorrhage, engorged and tortuous retinal veins, intraretinal hemorrhages, and cotton wool spots in a 38-year-old female. Medical treatment was preferred to any invasive treatment. The subhyaloid hemorr...

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Autores principales: Mariotti, Cesare, Giovannini, Alfonso, Reibaldi, Michele, Saitta, Andrea, Viti, Francesca, Nicolai, Michele
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
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Publicado: S. Karger AG 2014
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Published online: November, 2014
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4280464/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25566061
http://dx.doi.org/10.1159/000368889
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author Mariotti, Cesare
Giovannini, Alfonso
Reibaldi, Michele
Saitta, Andrea
Viti, Francesca
Nicolai, Michele
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description We report an atypical presentation of Antiphospholipid syndrome (APS) with concomitant subhyaloid hemorrhage, engorged and tortuous retinal veins, intraretinal hemorrhages, and cotton wool spots in a 38-year-old female. Medical treatment was preferred to any invasive treatment. The subhyaloid hemorrhage resolved spontaneously and the patient recovered a visual acuity of 20/20 in her right eye 3 months after the initial episode. A prompt diagnosis of this condition is fundamental to consider a systemic treatment to avoid any further thrombosis.
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spelling pubmed-42804642015-01-06 Atypical Presentation of Antiphospholipid Syndrome: A Case Report Mariotti, Cesare Giovannini, Alfonso Reibaldi, Michele Saitta, Andrea Viti, Francesca Nicolai, Michele Case Rep Ophthalmol Published online: November, 2014 We report an atypical presentation of Antiphospholipid syndrome (APS) with concomitant subhyaloid hemorrhage, engorged and tortuous retinal veins, intraretinal hemorrhages, and cotton wool spots in a 38-year-old female. Medical treatment was preferred to any invasive treatment. The subhyaloid hemorrhage resolved spontaneously and the patient recovered a visual acuity of 20/20 in her right eye 3 months after the initial episode. A prompt diagnosis of this condition is fundamental to consider a systemic treatment to avoid any further thrombosis. S. Karger AG 2014-11-26 /pmc/articles/PMC4280464/ /pubmed/25566061 http://dx.doi.org/10.1159/000368889 Text en Copyright © 2014 by S. Karger AG, Basel http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ This is an Open Access article licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC) (www.karger.com/OA-license), applicable to the online version of the article only. Users may download, print and share this work on the Internet for noncommercial purposes only, provided the original work is properly cited, and a link to the original work on http://www.karger.com and the terms of this license are included in any shared versions.
spellingShingle Published online: November, 2014
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Giovannini, Alfonso
Reibaldi, Michele
Saitta, Andrea
Viti, Francesca
Nicolai, Michele
Atypical Presentation of Antiphospholipid Syndrome: A Case Report
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title_sort atypical presentation of antiphospholipid syndrome: a case report
topic Published online: November, 2014
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