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Two and three-dimensional echocardiography in primary antiphospholipid syndrome: misdiagnosis as rheumatic valve disease

Department of Echocardiography, Instituto Nacional de Cardiología ‘Ignacio Chávez’, Mexico City, Mexico

M C Amigo

Department of Rheumatology, Instituto Nacional de Cardiologia, ‘Ignacio Chávez', Mexico City, Mexico

J Vargas-Barrón

Instituto Nacional de Cardiología ‘Ignacio Chávez’, Juan Badiano No. 1, Colonia Sección XVI, Tlalpan, 14080 México, D.F., Mexico.

C Keirns

A Romero Cárdenas

Department of Echocardiography, Instituto Nacional de Cardiología ‘Ignacio Chávez’, Mexico City, Mexico

M Vidal

Department of Rheumatology, Instituto Nacional de Cardiologia, ‘Ignacio Chávez’, Mexico City, Mexico

J Roldán

Department of Echocardiography, Instituto Nacional de Cardiología ‘Ignacio Chávez’, Mexico City, Mexico

This is a report of a woman in the fyfth decade of life with primary antiphospholipid syndrome and involvement of a heart valve. Diagnosis was reached with echocardiography and serological studies.

Key Words: echocardiography • primary antiphospholipid syndrome • nodules

Lupus, Vol. 10, No. 7, 511-513 (2001)
DOI: 10.1191/096120301678416097


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