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Anticardiolipin antibodies and polyarteritis nodosa
R de la Fuente Fernandez1, J Graña Gil
1Service of Neurology, Hospital Juan Canalejo, A Coruña, Spain.
Lupus
|December 1, 1994
Abstract:
A patient with biopsy-diagnosed polyarteritis nodosa showed central nervous system (CNS) involvement and evidence of intrathecal synthesis of immunoglobulins, coincident with very high serum levels of anticardiolipin antibodies (aCL). Cerebral angiography was normal. We suggest that aCL could be directly implicated in the CNS damage.