Ugeskrift for Laeger 1991-Jan
[Anti-cardiolipin antibody in cerebral infarction].
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A 28 year old woman with a previous history of labile hypertension, migraine and transitory cerebral ischemia was admitted with cerebral infarction. One month later she developed livedo reticularis and amaurosis fugax, which led to the diagnosis of Sneddon's disease (livedo reticularis, labile hypertension and neurological symptoms) and the anticardiolipin antibody (ACA) syndrome. Treatment with prednisone and phenprocoumon resulted in lowering of ACA-titers, but the symptoms did not subside until acetylsalicylic acid was added.