Journal article
Lupus anticoagulant and ANCA associated thrombotic vasculopathy due to cocaine contaminated with levamisole: a case report and review of the literature
Journal of thrombosis and thrombolysis, v 34(1), pp 7-10
01 Jul 2012
PMID: 22437653
Abstract
A 2010 US report recently detected the presence of levamisole in greater than 77 % of seized cocaine samples. A syndrome of retiform purpura, often involving ears and flanks, with vasculopathy or vasculitis on biopsy, associated with anti-nuclear cytoplasmic antibodies as well as antiphospholipid antibodies, previously associated with therapeutic use of levamisole has now re-emerged, and is associated with cocaine adulterated with levamisole. Patients with this unusual constellation of signs and laboratory findings should be questioned about exposure to cocaine.
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- Title
- Lupus anticoagulant and ANCA associated thrombotic vasculopathy due to cocaine contaminated with levamisole: a case report and review of the literature
- Creators
- Shuchi Gulati (Corresponding Author) - Reading HospitalAnthony A. Donato - Jefferson College
- Publication Details
- Journal of thrombosis and thrombolysis, v 34(1), pp 7-10
- Publisher
- Springer Nature
- Number of pages
- 4
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Medicine (Graduate); General Internal Medicine
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:000305523300002
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-84862769129
- Other Identifier
- 991022161735504721