Hughes Syndrome : a Patient's Guide /
As with any delicate machine, the human body can be profoundly affected by its supply of vital running materials. Thus, the tendency for the blood to clot excessively has the potential to cut off the oxygen supply to any organ of the body. In 1983, Dr Graham Hughes and his team in London described a...
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London :
Springer London,
2001.
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Sticky blood: the disease is common
- 2. Main clinical features
- 3. Clotting in veins
- 4. Stroke
- 5. Memory loss and "Alzheimers"
- 6. Headaches, migraine and fits
- 7. The spinal cord and "multiple sclerosis"
- 8. The heart and arteries
- 9. Internal organs
- 10. The "catastrophic" antiphospholipid syndrome
- 11. Pregnancy and fetal loss
- 12. Hughes syndrome and lupus
- 13. Treatment
- 14. The outlook
- 15. What blood tests do we use?- 16. Research
- 17. Background
- 18. Further reading and websites.