Renal affection in a patient with Sneddon's syndrome

Abstract

This case report draws attention to renal damage in a young patient with Sneddon's syndrome, analyses a course of nephropathy and methods of its diagnosis, shows efficacy of anticoagulant therapy, demonstrates possible development of generalized affection of the microcirculatory bed with involvement not only of the skin and brain vessels suggesting that Sneddon's syndrome is a systemic ischemic pathology the manifestations of which in many cases mask polyorganic impairment.

Keywords

• sneddon syndrome
• antiphospholipid syndrome
• thrombotic microangiopathy
• antiphospholipid antibodies
• livedo reticularis