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Patients with APS can experience a variety of thrombotic complications, both arterial and venous.
Marissa Laureano, and Mark A. Crowther Blood 2018;132:1357-1358
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The antiphospholipid (Hughes) syndrome
• Definition: A persisting antiphospholipid antibody associated with thrombosis &/or pregnancy morbidity
• Used to consider:
• PRIMARY isolated
• SECONDAY associated with another autoimmune disease, usually SLE, also myaesthenia gravis, rheumatoid arthritis
• But nw considered “just another autoimmune disease”
• It is a MULTISYSTEM disorder -skin, valves, thrombocytopenia etc
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