Partial HELLP syndrome in pregnancy complicated by recurrent deep vein thromboses and palmar skin lesions in a patient with prothrombin gene 20210a mutation and antiphospholipid antibodies: an unusual case

Clin Rheumatol. 2008 Feb;27(2):245-8. doi: 10.1007/s10067-007-0683-1. Epub 2007 Jul 3.

Abstract

A patient who developed thrombocytopenia and hypertension accompanied by high levels of antiphospholipid antibodies and abnormal liver function tests in the absence of a hemolytic anemia necessitating termination of pregnancy developed bilateral lower limb thromboses accompanied by painful maculo papular lesions on the palms of both hands a few days after ending the pregnancy. She was then also found to have a prothrombin gene G20210A mutation. She was treated with anticoagulation therapy, but her postpartum course was further complicated by pulmonary embolus. A Greenfield filter was inserted into the inferior vena cava. On low molecular weight heparin, her next pregnancy was uneventful and without any complications.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Abortion, Therapeutic
  • Adult
  • Antibodies, Antiphospholipid*
  • Anticoagulants / therapeutic use
  • Female
  • HELLP Syndrome*
  • Heparin, Low-Molecular-Weight / therapeutic use
  • Humans
  • Mutation
  • Pregnancy
  • Prothrombin / genetics*
  • Pulmonary Embolism / drug therapy
  • Pulmonary Embolism / etiology*
  • Venous Thrombosis / drug therapy

Substances

  • Antibodies, Antiphospholipid
  • Anticoagulants
  • Heparin, Low-Molecular-Weight
  • Prothrombin