L A Kalashnikova, L A Dobrynina, E N Aleksandrova, A A Novikov
Neurological disturbances frequently emerge in antiphospholipid syndrome (APS). One hundred and twenty four patients (100 women, 24 men, mean age 37.5 +/- 11.3 years) with primary APS (PAPS), including 76 patients with Sneddon's syndrome and positive antibodies to phospholipids (aPL), have been studied. A structure of neurological disturbances was as follows: ischemic lesions of cerebral blood flow (LCBF) which comprised stroke and transient LCBF (91%); thrombosis of brain venous sinuses (3%); epileptic seizures (24%); headache (65%); chorea (15%); visual neuropathy (9%); peripheral neuropathy (6%); multiple-sclerosis-like syndrome (10%); myasthenia syndrome (1%); syndrome of parkinsonism of non-vascular genesis (1%) and psychotic disorders (2%)...
2005: Zhurnal Nevrologii i Psikhiatrii Imeni S.S. Korsakova