Case Report
The Conundrum of Septic Shock Imitators in Patients with Hematologic Cancers: Case Presentation and Possible Differential Diagnoses
Table 4
Diagnostic criteria for CAPS (from [
29]).
| Preliminary criteria | Case |
| (1) Evidence of involvement of ≥3 organs, system and/or tissues | + | (2) Development of clinical manifestation simultaneously or in <1 week | + | (3) Evidence of small vessel occlusion in at least 1 organ or tissue | + | (4) Lab evidences of LAC and/or aCL and aβ2GBPI | n.a. |
| Definite CAPS | | (i) All 4 criteria | − |
| Probable CAPS | | (i) All 4 criteria, 2 organs, system and/or tissues involved | − | (ii) All 4 criteria, except for the lack of lab evidence due to the early death of patients never tested for APS | − | (iii) Criteria 1, 2, and 4 | − | (iv) Criteria 1, 3, and 4 and development of a third event between one week and one month after the initial presentation despite anticoagulation | n.a. |
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n.a: not available.
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