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Gerard Espinosa

Servei de Malalties Autoimmunes, Hospital Clinic, Barcelona
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Catastrophic antiphospholipid syndrome: clues to the pathogenesis from a series of 80 patients

…, R Cervera, JC Piette, Y Shoenfeld, G Espinosa… - Medicine, 2001 - journals.lww.com
The antiphospholipid syndrome (APS), originally defined as the combination of venous or
arterial thrombotic events, recurrent fetal loss, and, frequently, a moderate thrombocytopenia …

Morbidity and mortality in the antiphospholipid syndrome during a 5-year period: a multicentre prospective study of 1000 patients

…, A Fernandez-Nebro, JC Piette, G Espinosa… - Annals of the …, 2009 - ard.bmj.com
Objectives: To identify the main causes of morbidity and mortality in patients with antiphospholipid
syndrome (APS) during a 5-year period and to determine clinical and immunological …

Mortality in the catastrophic antiphospholipid syndrome: causes of death and prognostic factors in a series of 250 patients

S Bucciarelli, G Espinosa, R Cervera… - … : Official Journal of …, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
Objective To assess the main causes of death and the prognostic factors that influence
mortality in patients with the catastrophic antiphospholipid syndrome (CAPS). Methods We …

Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) in childhood: analysis of clinical and immunological findings in 34 patients and comparison with SLE characteristics in adults

J Font, R Cervera, G Espinosa, L Pallarés… - Annals of the …, 1998 - ard.bmj.com
OBJECTIVE To define the pattern of disease expression in patients with childhood onset
systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). METHODS Prospective analysis of clinical manifestations …

Validation of the preliminary criteria for the classification of catastrophic antiphospholipid syndrome

…, J Font, JA Gómez-Puerta, G Espinosa… - Annals of the …, 2005 - ard.bmj.com
Objective: To describe the characteristics of patients with catastrophic antiphospholipid
syndrome (APS) included in the International Registry of patients with this condition (CAPS …

Treatment of antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibody–associated vasculitis: a systematic review

X Bosch, A Guilabert, G Espinosa, E Mirapeix - Jama, 2007 - jamanetwork.com
ContextImmunosuppressive therapies for antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibody (ANCA)–associated
vasculitis have greatly advanced patient survival but have turned ANCA-associated …

Catastrophic antiphospholipid syndrome (CAPS): descriptive analysis of 500 patients from the International CAPS Registry

…, I Santacreu, Y Shoenfeld, D Erkan, G Espinosa… - Autoimmunity …, 2016 - Elsevier
Objective To analyze the clinical and immunologic manifestations of patients with catastrophic
antiphospholipid syndrome (CAPS) from the “CAPS Registry”. Methods The demographic, …

[PDF][PDF] Immunochip analysis identifies multiple susceptibility loci for systemic sclerosis

…, L Martínez, V Fonollosa, G Espinosa… - The American Journal of …, 2014 - cell.com
In this study, 1,833 systemic sclerosis (SSc) cases and 3,466 controls were genotyped with
the Immunochip array. Classical alleles, amino acid residues, and SNPs across the human …

Rituximab use in the catastrophic antiphospholipid syndrome: descriptive analysis of the CAPS registry patients receiving rituximab

…, D Erkan, Y Shoenfeld, G Espinosa… - Autoimmunity …, 2013 - Elsevier
The catastrophic variant of the antiphospholipid syndrome (APS) is characterized by
thrombosis in multiple organs developing over a short period of time. First-line treatment for the …

Adrenal involvement in the antiphospholipid syndrome: clinical and immunologic characteristics of 86 patients

G Espinosa, E Santos, R Cervera, JC Piette… - Medicine, 2003 - journals.lww.com
To describe the clinical and immunologic characteristics of patients with adrenal
involvement and antiphospholipid syndrome (APS), we conducted a computer-assisted (PubMed) …