Bilateral spontaneous renal artery dissection and antiphospholipid antibodies.
Bilateral spontaneous renal artery dissection and antiphospholipid antibodies.
Br J Biomed Sci. 2020 Jan 06;
Authors: Del Porto F, Cifani N, Orgera G, Taurino M, Proietta M
Abstract
Spontaneous renal artery dissection (SRAD) is a rare disorder with a prevalence of 0.005%, whilst bilateral SRAD is even less frequent. It occurs in about 12-18% of all cases of renal artery dissection and represents a variant entity, whose causes often remain unknown. To our knowledge, only 29 cases of bilateral SRAD have been previously described. Here we report the 30th case of a 46-years-old man with bilateral SRAD dissection and repeatedly positive IgM anticardiolipin antibodies at medium titres that may be pathogenic.
PMID: 31903851 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: British Journal of Biomedical Science - Category: Laboratory Medicine Tags: Br J Biomed Sci Source Type: research
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