Abstracts tagged "Antiphospholipid syndrome and fibromyalgia"

Abstract Number: 154 • 2017 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Frequency of Fibromyalgia in Patients with Antiphospholipid Syndrome. a Cross-Sectional Study
Nicole Mouneu Ornelas¹, Laura-Aline Martinez-Martinez², Vijaya Rivera³, Ricardo Alberto Venegas Yañez⁴, Victor Alejandro Escamilla Gomez⁵, Gumaro Acosta Peña⁶, Luis H. Silveira⁷, Angelica Vargas Guerrero³, Luis M. Amezcua-Guerra³ and Manuel Martínez-Lavín³, ¹Internal Medicine, Instituto Nacional de Cardiología - Ignacio Chávez, IGNACIO CHÁVEZ, Mexico, ²Rheumatology, Instituto Nacional de Cardiologia Ignacio Chavez, Mexico City, TX, Mexico, ³Rheumatology, Instituto Nacional de Cardiologia Ignacio Chavez, Mexico City, Mexico, ⁴Reumatologia, Instituto Nacional de Cardiología "Ignacio Chavez", Ciudad de México, Mexico, ⁵Rheumatology, Instituto Nacional de Cardiología - Ignacio Chávez, Mexico City, Mexico, ⁶Instituto Nacional de Cardiología, Ciudad de mexico, Mexico, ⁷Rheumatology, Instituto Nacional de Cardiologia Ignacio Chavez, Mexico City DF, Mexico
Background/Purpose: The observation of several cases with coexistent antiphospholipid syndrome (APS) and fibromyalgia led us to this investigation. The objective was to define the frequency…