Letter to the Editor

Umesan CV , Kapoor A , Nityanand S , Tiwari S , Sinha N. Recurrent acute coronary events in a patient with primary antiphospholipid syndrome: successful management with intracoronary stenting . Int J Cardiol 1999; 71: 99-102 .

Takeuchi S , Obayashi T , Toyama J. Primary antiphospholipid syndrome with acute myocardial infarction recanalised by PTCA . Heart 1998; 79: 96-98 .

Aizawa K , Nakamura T , Sumino H et al. Renovascular hypertension observed in a patient with antiphospholipid-antibody syndrome . Jpn Circ J 2000; 64: 541-543 .

Rysava R , Zabka J , Peregrin JH , Tesar V , Merta M , Rychlik I. Acute renal failure due to bilateral renal artery thrombosis associated with primary antiphospholipid syndrome . Nephrol Dial Transplant 1998; 13: 2645-2647 .

Collste P , Haglund K , Lundgren G , Magnusson G , Ostman J. Reversible renal failure during treatment with captopril . Br Med J 1979; 2: 612-613 .

Sangle SR , D’Cruz DP , Jan W et al. Renal artery stenosis in the antiphospholipid (Hughes) syndrome and hypertension . Ann Rheum Dis 2003; 62: 999-1002 .

Vaarala O , Alfthan G , Jauhiainen M , Leirisalo-Repo M , Aho K , Palosuo T. Crossreaction between antibodies to oxidised low-density lipoprotein and to cardiolipin in systemic lupus erythematosus . Lancet 1993; 341: 923-925 .

Hasunuma Y , Matsuura E , Makita Z , Katahira T , Nishi S , Koike T. Involvement of beta 2-glycoprotein I and anticardiolipin antibodies in oxidatively modified low-density lipoprotein uptake by macrophages . Clin Exp Immunol 1997; 107: 569-573 .

Harats D , George J , Levy Y , Khamashta MA , Hughes GR , Shoenfeld Y. Atheroma: links with antiphospholipid antibodies, Hughes syndrome and lupus . QJM 1999; 92: 57-59 .

Asherson RA , Cervera R. Anticardiolipin antibodies, chronic biologic false positive tests for syphilis and other antiphospholipid antibodies. In: Wallace DJ , Hahn BJS (eds). Dubois systemic lupus erythematosus. Philadelphia: Lea and Freiberger , 1993, pp 233-245.