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Situations which require to test for antiphospholipid antibodies (APS)

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The following are considered as indications for testing for antiphospholipid antibodies:

  • thrombosis
    • arterial thrombosis before the age of 50
    • unprovoked venous thrombosis before the age of 50
    • recurrent thrombosis
    • thrombosis at an unusual site
    • patients with both arterial and venous thrombotic events
    • any patient admitted with thrombotic microangiopathy of unknown aetiology

  • obstetric manifestation
    • one or more unexplained fetal loss after 10 weeks gestation
    • unexplained severe intrauterine growth restriction
    • early or severe pre-eclampsia
    • three or more spontaneous miscarriages before 10 weeks of gestation

  • patients with SLE
    • at baseline
    • repeat testing before pregnancy, surgery, transplantation and use of oestrogen containing treatments or in the presence of new neurological, vascular or obstetric event (1)

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