This article presents a case of a 17-year-old girl with primary antiphospholipid syndrome developing subacute signs of hand and leg ischaemia caused by radiologically verified radial and popliteal artery occlusion. She is successfully treated with a thrombolytic agent (alteplase) and recovers completely. Her laboratory results came positive for all three subtypes of antiphospholipid antibodies. This kind of antiphospholipid syndrome presentation is a very rare entity in itself. Shortly afterwards her mother is diagnosed with primary antiphospholipid syndrome as well. A familial form of antiphospholipid syndrome is suspected. Combination of a familial antiphospholipid syndrome presenting as bivessel arterial thrombosis is a unique case, to the best of our knowledge, never described in the literature before. © 2011 Springer-Verlag.
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Jelušić, M., Starčević, K., Vidović, M., Dobrota, S., Potočki, K., Banfić, L., & Anić, B. (2013). Familial antiphospholipid syndrome presenting as bivessel arterial occlusion in a 17-year-old girl. Rheumatology International, 33(5), 1359–1362. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00296-011-2300-5
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