| Title | Primary antiphospholipid syndrome presenting with abdominal angina and splenic infarction. | | Author(s) | Choi BG, Jeon HS, Lee SO, Yoo WH, Lee ST, Ahn DS | | Institution | Division of Rheumatology, Department of Internal Medicine, Chonbuk National University Medical School and Research Institute of Clinical Medicine, #634-18 Keumam Dong, Dukjin Gu, Chonju, Chonbuk, 561-712, Korea. | | Source | Rheumatol Int 2002 Jul; 22(3):119-21. | | MeSH | Abdominal Pain
Antiphospholipid Syndrome
Aortography
Celiac Artery
Female
Humans
Infarction
Mesenteric Arteries
Mesenteric Vascular Occlusion
Middle Aged
Spleen
Thrombosis
Tomography, X-Ray Computed
Treatment Refusal
| | Abstract | The antiphospholipid syndrome is an autoimmune hypercoagulability syndrome in which a wide variety of thromboembolic diseases may occur. Gastrointestinal manifestations associated with vascular occlusion include Budd-Chiari syndrome, hepatic and splenic infarction, pancreatitis, omental and intestinal infarction, and esophageal variceal bleeding due to portal vein thrombosis, but chronic mesenteric ischemia associated with mesenteric arterial thrombosis is very rare in this syndrome. We experienced a female patient with primary antiphospholipid syndrome with abdominal angina and splenic infarction associated with celiac trunk and mesenteric arterial thromboses. This is the first report describing chronic mesenteric ischemia and splenic infarction in a patient with primary antiphospholipid syndrome. | | Language | eng | | Pub Type(s) | Case Reports
Journal Article
| | PubMed ID | 12111088 |
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