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Clinically asymptomatic antiphospholipid antibodies – diagnostic and therapeutic problems

Krystyna Zawilska, Agata Lehmann‑Kopydłowska

Abstract
The presence of asymptomatic antiphospholipid antibodies (aAPA) creates many difficult diagnostic and clinical problems – they might be a cause either of incorrect hemorrhagic diathesis recognition or an unnecessary anticoagulant therapy. Patients with aAPA should be counseled individually regarding potential thrombotic and/or obstetric complications. An increased risk of these complications is particularly high when lupus anticoagulant (LAC) and IgG anti-β2 glycoprotein antibodies coexist. The approaches to the diagnosis and management of treatment of patients with aAPA are also discussed.

Keywords
anti-β2 glycoprotein I antibodies, arterial thrombosis, asymptomatic antiphospholipid antibodies, lupus anticoagulant, venous thromboembolism

Pol Arch Med Wewn, 2008; 118 (SUPPLEMENT 1): 70-74

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