Libyan Journal of Medicine (Jan 2008)

Primary Antiphospholipid Syndrome: Unusual Presentation in a Seventy Two Year Old Man

  • Ajaj A,
  • Luhishi E,
  • Metaraiah E

Journal volume & issue
Vol. 3, no. 2
p. AOP: 080311

Abstract

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A 72 year old man with a history of TIAs and stroke with unexplained moderately raised ESR presented a year later with rapid deterioration of vision in his left eye because of central retinal vein occlusion. Primary antiphospholipid syndrome is found in patients with history of arterial or venous thromboembolism, thrombocytopenia and recurrent fetal loss without features of SLE.

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