Case 17-2018: A 40-Year-Old Woman with Leg Swelling and Abdominal Distention and Pain

N Engl J Med. 2018 May 31;378(22):2124-2132. doi: 10.1056/NEJMcpc1712228.

Authors

Charles A Morris¹, Midhir J Patel¹, Andrew Z Fenves¹, Ricard Masia¹

Affiliation

¹ From the Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital (C.A.M.), the Departments of Radiology (M.J.P.), Medicine (A.Z.F.), and Pathology (R.M.), Massachusetts General Hospital, and the Departments of Medicine (C.A.M., A.Z.F.), Radiology (M.J.P.), and Pathology (R.M.), Harvard Medical School - all in Boston.

PMID: 29847754
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMcpc1712228

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Publication types

Case Reports

MeSH terms

Abdominal Pain / etiology
Adult
Anticoagulants / therapeutic use
Autoantibodies / blood
Computed Tomography Angiography
Diagnosis, Differential
Edema / etiology
Female
Glomerulonephritis, Membranous / complications
Glomerulonephritis, Membranous / diagnosis*
Glomerulonephritis, Membranous / immunology
Humans
Leg
Lung / diagnostic imaging
Lung / pathology
Nephrotic Syndrome / diagnosis
Pulmonary Embolism / diagnostic imaging*
Pulmonary Embolism / drug therapy
Receptors, Phospholipase A2 / immunology*
Renal Veins / diagnostic imaging*
Renal Veins / pathology
Venous Thrombosis / complications
Venous Thrombosis / diagnostic imaging*

Substances

Anticoagulants
Autoantibodies
PLA2R1 protein, human
Receptors, Phospholipase A2