Lupus anticoagulant and ANCA associated thrombotic vasculopathy due to cocaine contaminated with levamisole: a case report and review of the literature.
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
7-1-2012
Abstract
A 2010 US report recently detected the presence of levamisole in greater than 77 % of seized cocaine samples. A syndrome of retiform purpura, often involving ears and flanks, with vasculopathy or vasculitis on biopsy, associated with anti-nuclear cytoplasmic antibodies as well as antiphospholipid antibodies, previously associated with therapeutic use of levamisole has now re-emerged, and is associated with cocaine adulterated with levamisole. Patients with this unusual constellation of signs and laboratory findings should be questioned about exposure to cocaine.
Publication Title
Journal of thrombosis and thrombolysis
Volume
34
Issue
1
First Page
7
Last Page
10
Recommended Citation
Gulati, S., & Donato, A. A. (2012). Lupus anticoagulant and ANCA associated thrombotic vasculopathy due to cocaine contaminated with levamisole: a case report and review of the literature.. Journal of thrombosis and thrombolysis, 34 (1), 7-10. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11239-012-0711-0