Two- and three-dimensional echocardiography in primary antiphospholipid syndrome: misdiagnosis as rheumatic valve disease.
This is a report of a woman in the fifth decade of life with primary antiphospholipid syndrome and involvement of a heart valve. Diagnosis was reached with echocardiography and serological studies.
Espinola-Zavaleta
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Department of Echocardiography, Instituto Nacional de Cardiología Ignacio Chávez, Mexico City, Mexico.
Amigo
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Vargas-Barrón
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Keirns
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Cárdenas
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Vidal
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Roldán
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D016736:Antiphospholipid Syndrome / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D004452:Echocardiography; D019560:Echocardiography, Three-Dimensional; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D012214:Rheumatic Heart Disease / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*