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Lupus anticoagulant: a potential risk factor for complication following percutaneous transluminal coronary
P Anglin1, B H Strauss, J M Brandwein
1Division of Cardiology, St. Michael's Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Catheterization and Cardiovascular Diagnosis
|February 1, 1994
Abstract:
A patient is described with antiphospholipid antibodies who died approximately 24 hr after an uncomplicated balloon angioplasty. Since the literature suggests a relationship between the presence of antiphospholipid antibodies and thromboses, we suggest that these antibodies may be a risk factor for abrupt closure after percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty.