Vasculopathy in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus and the antiphospholipid syndrome

Alekberova, Z.S.; Reshetniak, T.M.; Rodenska-Lopovok, S.G.; Aleksandrova, E.N.; Kalashnikova, L.A.; Nasonov, E.L.; Mach, E.S.; Nasonova, V.A.

Terapevticheskii Arkhiv 67(5): 41-44

1995


ISSN/ISBN: 0040-3660
PMID: 7638777
Document Number: 448249
Clinicomorphological examination covered 100 patients with confirmed SLE: 79 with concomitant APS (group 1), 21 free of APS (group 2). In group 1 thrombolytic complications occurred in 75%, in group 2- in 13%. The recurrences were more frequent in group 1. Overall percentage of arterial and venous thromboses was approximately the same. According to biopsy and autopsy 2 kinds of morphological changes were found: typical for SLE and APS. Morphological specificity of APS manifested with proliferative and thrombotic changes in both arteries and veins.

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