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Wheeless' Textbook of Orthopaedics

Antiphospolipid Antibodies: (Anticardiolipin and Lupus Erythematosus)


- See: Lupus Anticoagulant: - Discussion: - Lupus erythematosus anticoagulant, anticardiolipin antibodies, and antibodies with false-positive VDRL test results are a group of antiphospholipid antibodies frequently found in patients with SLE and other related autoimmune diseases; - patients with SLE average have frequency of 34% for lupus erythematosus anticoagulant and 44% for anticardiolipin antibodies; - w/ SLE, there is higher prevelance of h/o of thrombosis, neurological disorders, or Thrombocytopenia;



Original Text by Clifford R. Wheeless, III, MD.