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Journal of the Polish Society of Internal Medicine founded by professor Władysław Antoni Gluziński
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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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