Anticardiolipin Antibodies and Polyarteritis Nodosa
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- 1 December 1994
- journal article
- case report
- Published by SAGE Publications in Lupus
- Vol. 3 (6) , 523-524
Abstract
A patient with biopsy-diagnosed polyarteritis nodosa showed central nervous system (CNS) involvement and evidence of intrathecal synthesis of immunoglobulins, coincident with very high serum levels of anticardiolipin antibodies (aCL). Cerebral angiography was normal. We suggest that aCL could be directly implicated in the CNS damage.Keywords
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