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What guides your choice between prophylactic, intermediate, and full therapeutic dosing of enoxaparin in a woman with APLS and prior fetal loss with no hx of thromboembolic disease?

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What dose of enoxaparin would you use to treat obstetric antiphospholipid syndrome?

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Hematology · Oregon Health & Science University
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First, it is essential to confirm that patients meet criteria for obstetric antiphospholipid antibody syndrome (OAPS), based on the 2023 ACR/EULAR classification criteria. This includes persistently positive laboratory criteria (confirmed on repeat testing >12 weeks apart), plus otherwise unexplaine...

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Rheumatology · University of Chicago
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This topic is addressed in the 2020 ACR Reproductive Health guidelines.

This patient has obstetric APS, assuming they meet the lab criteria for such. Therefore, they should be on low-dose aspirin and prophylaxis with LMWH.

I do think it's important to consider that if she doesn't meet the official cri...

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