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Is there a role for immunosuppression in patients with triple positive antiphospholipid antibodies who do not meet the clinical criteria for APS?

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Rheumatology · Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USUHS)
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Currently, there are no “clinical” nor “diagnostic” criteria for antiphospholipid syndrome (APS). I suspect your question refers to patients not meeting the Sapporo APS “classification criteria.”

There are two primary ways that patients with triple-positive antiphospholipid antibodies (aPLs: anticard...

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Rheumatology · UTMB Health
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Very good summary of the available evidence or lack thereof. We should remember that the distinction between criteria and non-criteria APS manifestation is, of course, artificial. I remember an old abstract presented at an ACR meeting by Nigel Harris where steroids given to APS patients actually inc...

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