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APS is associated with recurrent clotting events including premature stroke, repeated miscarriages, phlebitis, venous thrombosis and pulmonary thromboembolism. Recently, however, even more disease states have been linked with APL including premature heart attack, migraine headaches, various cardiac valvular abnormalities, skin lesions, abnormal movement/chorea, diseases that mimic multiple sclerosis, vascular diseases of the eye that can lead to visual loss and blindness.

Thursday, August 03, 2006

SERONEGATIVE ANTIPHOSPHOLIPID ANTIBODY SYNDROME (SNAPS)…AND SNAPPING TO IT!!

By: Gale McCarty, MD, FACR, FACP “You don’t have the syndrome because your tests are low level or negative…” or “You have livedo, a heart valve problem, and thrombocytopenia, but these aren’t listed as criteria for diagnosis” are comments made frequently by healthcare providers from many specialties to patients with clinical features suggesting the Antiphospholipid Antibody Syndrome (APS).

http://www.apsfa.org/docs/APSFAVol2Summer2006.pdf