Anticardiolipin antibody associated ischaemic strokes in elderly patients without systemic lupus erythematosus.
We describe four elderly stroke patients--two men and two women--who had significantly elevated levels of anticardiolipin antibody in the absence of systemic lupus erythematosus or other connective-tissue disease.
Chakravarty
K K
KK
Department of Geriatric Medicine, Stoke Mandeville Hospital, Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire.
Al-Hillawi
A H
AH
Byron
M A
MA
Durkin
C J
CJ
D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D000974:Antibodies, Antinuclear / Q000032:analysis; D001323:Autoantibodies / Q000032:analysis*; D002545:Brain Ischemia / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000276:immunology*; D002308:Cardiolipins / Q000276:immunology*; D002544:Cerebral Infarction / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000276:immunology*; D005260:Female; D006429:Hemiplegia / Q000276:immunology; D006801:Humans; D007074:Immunoglobulin G / Q000032:analysis; D007075:Immunoglobulin M / Q000032:analysis; D008180:Lupus Erythematosus, Systemic / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000276:immunology*; D008297:Male; D011379:Prognosis; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed
D000974:Antibodies, Antinuclear; D001323:Autoantibodies; D002308:Cardiolipins; D007074:Immunoglobulin G; D007075:Immunoglobulin M