Ischemic Stroke Presenting as the First Symptom in a Setting of Paroxysmal Nocturnal Hemoglobinuria

Paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria is a hematological disorder characterized by hemolytic anemia, cytopenia, and thrombotic events. Venous thrombotic events are more commonly reported. An arterial thrombosis is a rare event in paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria. We present a case of a 32-year-old...

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Autores principales: Ahsan, Muhammad Junaid, Ishtiaq, Rizwan, Ishtiaq, Daniyal
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5626172/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28983440
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.1439
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description Paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria is a hematological disorder characterized by hemolytic anemia, cytopenia, and thrombotic events. Venous thrombotic events are more commonly reported. An arterial thrombosis is a rare event in paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria. We present a case of a 32-year-old female who had symptoms of stroke and on workup, she was diagnosed as a case of paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria. 
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spelling pubmed-56261722017-10-05 Ischemic Stroke Presenting as the First Symptom in a Setting of Paroxysmal Nocturnal Hemoglobinuria Ahsan, Muhammad Junaid Ishtiaq, Rizwan Ishtiaq, Daniyal Cureus Other Paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria is a hematological disorder characterized by hemolytic anemia, cytopenia, and thrombotic events. Venous thrombotic events are more commonly reported. An arterial thrombosis is a rare event in paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria. We present a case of a 32-year-old female who had symptoms of stroke and on workup, she was diagnosed as a case of paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria.  Cureus 2017-07-07 /pmc/articles/PMC5626172/ /pubmed/28983440 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.1439 Text en Copyright © 2017, Ahsan et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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title Ischemic Stroke Presenting as the First Symptom in a Setting of Paroxysmal Nocturnal Hemoglobinuria
title_full Ischemic Stroke Presenting as the First Symptom in a Setting of Paroxysmal Nocturnal Hemoglobinuria
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title_short Ischemic Stroke Presenting as the First Symptom in a Setting of Paroxysmal Nocturnal Hemoglobinuria
title_sort ischemic stroke presenting as the first symptom in a setting of paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5626172/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28983440
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.1439
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