Case 40-2017. A 32-Year-Old Woman with Headache, Abdominal Pain, Anemia, and Thrombocytopenia

N Engl J Med. 2017 Dec 28;377(26):2581-2590. doi: 10.1056/NEJMcpc1710566.

Authors

David B Sykes¹, Rachel P Rosovsky¹, Aneesh B Singhal¹, R Gilberto Gonzalez¹, Andrea P Moy¹

Affiliation

¹ From the Departments of Medicine (D.B.S., R.P.R.), Neurology (A.B.S.), Radiology (R.G.G.), and Pathology (A.P.M.), Massachusetts General Hospital, and the Departments of Medicine (D.B.S., R.P.R.), Neurology (A.B.S.), Radiology (R.G.G.), and Pathology (A.P.M.), Harvard Medical School - both in Boston.

PMID: 29281575
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMcpc1710566

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Publication types

Case Reports
Clinical Conference

MeSH terms

Abdominal Pain / etiology
Adult
Anemia / etiology
Anemia, Hemolytic / diagnosis
Antibodies, Monoclonal, Humanized / adverse effects
Antibodies, Monoclonal, Humanized / therapeutic use
Bone Marrow Examination
Brain / diagnostic imaging
Cerebral Veins / diagnostic imaging
Disseminated Intravascular Coagulation / diagnosis
Female
Headache / etiology*
Hemoglobinuria, Paroxysmal / complications
Hemoglobinuria, Paroxysmal / diagnosis*
Hemoglobinuria, Paroxysmal / drug therapy
Humans
Radiography, Abdominal
Spleen / diagnostic imaging
Spleen / pathology
Thrombocytopenia / etiology
Tomography, X-Ray Computed
Venous Thrombosis / diagnostic imaging
Venous Thrombosis / etiology*
Vision Disorders / etiology

Substances

Antibodies, Monoclonal, Humanized
eculizumab