seizures in primary antiphospholipid syndrome the relevance of smoking to stroke癫痫在初级antiphospholipid综合征的相关性中风吸烟.pdfVIP

Hindawi Publishing Corporation Clinical and Developmental Immunology Volume 2012, Article ID 981519, 7 pages doi:10.1155/2012/981519 Research Article Seizures in Primary Antiphospholipid Syndrome: The Relevance of Smoking to Stroke ´ 1 1 2 Jozelio Freire de Carvalho, Sandra Gofinet Pasoto, and Simone Appenzeller 1 Rheumatology Division, Hospital das Clınicas da Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de Sao Paulo, ´ ˜ 01246-903 Sao Paulo, SP, Brazil ˜ 2 Rheumatology Division, Hospital das Clınicas da Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de Campinas, Campinas, SP, Brazil ´ ´ Correspondence should be addressed to Jozelio Freire de Carvalho, jotafc@ Received 20 November 2011; Accepted 14 January 2012 Academic Editor: Clelia M. Riera ´ Copyright © 2012 Jozelio Freire de Carvalho et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Objectives. To evaluate the frequency of seizures in primary antiphospholipid syndrome (PAPS) and their possible clinical and laboratory associations. Methods. Eighty-eight PAPS patients (Sydney’s criteria) were analyzed by a standard interview, physical examination and review of medical charts. Risk factors for se