Lévi-Dan Azoulay, Marc Pineton de Chambrun, Romaric Larcher, Frédéric Pène, Laurent Argaud, Julien Mayaux, Matthieu Jamme, Remi Coudroy, Alexis Mathian, Aude Gibelin, Elie Azoulay, Yacine Tandjaoui-Lambiotte, Auguste Dargent, François Beloncle, Jean-Herlé Raphalen, Antoine Troger, Nicolas de Prost, Jérôme Devaquet, Damien Contou, Samuel Gaugain, Pierre Trouiller, Steven Grangé, Stanislas Ledochowski, Jérémie Lemarie, Stanislas Faguer, Vincent Degos, Quentin Moyon, Charles-Edouard Luyt, Mathieu Kerneis, Alain Combes, Zahir Amoura
AIMS: Antiphospholipid syndrome (APS) is a rare autoimmune disease defined by thrombotic events occurring in patients with persistent antiphospholipid antibodies. Cardiac manifestations in critically-ill APS patients are poorly investigated. We conducted a study to assess the prevalence, the characteristics and the prognosis of cardiac manifestations in thrombotic APS patients admitted to intensive care unit (ICU). METHODS AND RESULTS: A French, national, multicentre, retrospective study, conducted, from January 2000 to September 2018, including all APS patients admitted to 24 participating centres' ICUs with any new thrombotic (arterial, venous or microvascular) manifestation...
December 2022: Journal of Autoimmunity