Purpose: To determine the prevalence of lupus anticoagulant and anticardiolipin in systemic
lupus erythematosus (SLE) and in non-SLE disorders, and to evaluate the clinical …

Publisher Summary There are two major methods for detecting Antiphospholipid (aPL)
antibodies. The first is based on a solid-phase immunoassay employing purified …

▪ Objective: To determine the clinical course and influence of antithrombotic therapy in
patients with lupus anticoagulant or anticardiolipin antibodies, or both, after the first …

Pregnancy is hypercoagulable state. The field of thrombophilia; the tendency to thrombosis,
has been developed rapidly and has been linked to many aspects of pregnancy. It is …

Human reproductive failure may be a consequence of aberrant expression of immunological
factors during pregnancy. Although the relative importance of immunological factors in …

Pregnancy morbidity is one of the clinical manifestations used for classification criteria of
antiphospholipid syndrome (APS). During the 14th International Congress on …

OBJECTIVE: To determine the type of recurrent pregnancy loss associated with
antiphospholipid antibodies. METHODS: This was a retrospective analysis of women who …

Objective There are numerous studies reporting a disproportionally high prevalence of
thrombophilia in women with a history of recurrent miscarriage (RM), which has led to …

Between 0.5 and 1.0% of couples experience recurrent pregnancy loss (RPL), which is
defined as three or more consecutive miscarriages. Losses are classified as pre-embryonic …

Objective: To assess the effects of autoantibodies on the course of pregnancy and fetal
growth. Methods: One thousand one hundred seventy-nine healthy women with singleton …