EDITORIAL ARTICLE
Catastrophic antiphospholipid syndrome: 20 years of research work (1992–2012)
Online publication date: 2012-11-06
Reumatologia 2012;50(5):363-369
KEYWORDS
catastrophic antiphospholipid syndromeAsherson’s syndromeantiphospholipid antibodiesanticardiolipin antibodieslupus anticoagulantantiphospholipid syndrome
ABSTRACT
The catastrophic variant of the antiphospholipid syndrome (APS) is an uncommon but potentially life-threatening condition that needs high clinical awareness. Fortunately, less than 1% of patients with the APS develop this complication, but its potentially lethal outcome emphasizes its importance in clinical medicine today. A basic and sudden disturbance of the coagulation or fibrinolytic systems induced by the antiphospholipid antibodies (aPL) is highly probable in this group of patients, but precipitating factors remain unknown in most of them. The therapeutic connotation is that this may be corrected with the combination of anticoagulants plus glucocorticoids plus attempts at achieving a prompt reduction of aPL titer (i.e. plasma exchange and/or intravenous immunoglobulins).
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