Abstracts tagged "antiphospholipid syndrome and infection"

Abstract Number: 17 • ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting 2014
Antiphospholipid Syndrome Following Infection: A Systematic Review of Case Reports
Noha Abdel-Wahab^1,2, Maria A. Lopez-Olivo³, Paola Patarroyo-Pinto⁴ and Maria E. Suarez-Almazor², ¹Rheumatology & Rehabilitation Department, Assiut University Hospital, Assiut, Egypt, ²The Department of General Internal Medicine, The University of Texas, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, ³Department of General Internal Medicine, The University of Texas, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, ⁴Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX
Background/Purpose The occurrence of antiphospholipid syndrome (APS) following an infection has been increasingly reported in the literature. We conducted a systematic review of case reports…