Epstein Barr Virus-induced Antiphospholipid Antibodies Resulting in Splenic Infarct: A Case Report

Splenic infarction is a rare cause of abdominal pain. We herein reported a unique case of a 30-year-old male patient who developed a splenic infarct during the acute phase of Epstein-Barr virus (EBV)-associated infectious mononucleosis (IM) and was subsequently found to have the presence of antiphos...

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Autores principales: Khan, Salman, Saud, Shakir, Khan, Imran, Prabhu, Sheela
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2019
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Internal Medicine
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6478490/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31037233
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.4119
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author Khan, Salman
Saud, Shakir
Khan, Imran
Prabhu, Sheela
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description Splenic infarction is a rare cause of abdominal pain. We herein reported a unique case of a 30-year-old male patient who developed a splenic infarct during the acute phase of Epstein-Barr virus (EBV)-associated infectious mononucleosis (IM) and was subsequently found to have the presence of antiphospholipid antibodies (APA).
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spelling pubmed-64784902019-04-29 Epstein Barr Virus-induced Antiphospholipid Antibodies Resulting in Splenic Infarct: A Case Report Khan, Salman Saud, Shakir Khan, Imran Prabhu, Sheela Cureus Internal Medicine Splenic infarction is a rare cause of abdominal pain. We herein reported a unique case of a 30-year-old male patient who developed a splenic infarct during the acute phase of Epstein-Barr virus (EBV)-associated infectious mononucleosis (IM) and was subsequently found to have the presence of antiphospholipid antibodies (APA). Cureus 2019-02-22 /pmc/articles/PMC6478490/ /pubmed/31037233 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.4119 Text en Copyright © 2019, Khan 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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Khan, Salman
Saud, Shakir
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Prabhu, Sheela
Epstein Barr Virus-induced Antiphospholipid Antibodies Resulting in Splenic Infarct: A Case Report
title Epstein Barr Virus-induced Antiphospholipid Antibodies Resulting in Splenic Infarct: A Case Report
title_full Epstein Barr Virus-induced Antiphospholipid Antibodies Resulting in Splenic Infarct: A Case Report
title_fullStr Epstein Barr Virus-induced Antiphospholipid Antibodies Resulting in Splenic Infarct: A Case Report
title_full_unstemmed Epstein Barr Virus-induced Antiphospholipid Antibodies Resulting in Splenic Infarct: A Case Report
title_short Epstein Barr Virus-induced Antiphospholipid Antibodies Resulting in Splenic Infarct: A Case Report
title_sort epstein barr virus-induced antiphospholipid antibodies resulting in splenic infarct: a case report
topic Internal Medicine
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6478490/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31037233
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.4119
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