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Seronegative antiphospholipid syndrome associated with plasminogen activator inhibitor.

Lupus. 1994 Jun;3(3):201-3.

Further evidence of false negative screening for lupus anticoagulants

Thrombosis Research. Volume 121, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 477-484. Conclusions: LA activity can be demonstrated by assessment of screen and confirm data irrespective of screening test elevation above a reference range. Other workers have demonstrated this phenomenon in APTT using different study designs and it may be that standard interpretation criteria warrant re-assessment.

Antiphospholipid syndrome without antiphospholipid antibodies at the time of the thrombotic event: transient 'seronegative' antiphospholipid syndrome?

Clin Exp Rheumatol. 1997 Sep-Oct;15(5):541-4. The antiphospholipid syndrome (APS) is characterized by the presence of venous and arterial thrombosis, recurrent fetal losses and thrombocytopenia, associated with the presence of antiphospholipid antibodies (aPL). This syndrome may be "primary" or may be associated with other diseases, mainly systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). However, some patients present the clinical picture of this syndrome but without evidence of aPL in their serum. The term "seronegative" APS has been proposed to categorize these patients. Here with we present two patients with seronegativity for aPL at the time of a thrombotic event, but in whom these antibodies were detected 2 and 7 months later.

Seronegative antiphospholipid syndrome

Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases 2003;62:1127 © 2003 by BMJ Publishing Group Ltd & European League Against Rheumatism

Seronegative antiphospholipid syndrome

Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases 2004;63:608 © 2004 by BMJ Publishing Group Ltd & European League Against Rheumatism

*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).

Pyoderma gangrenosum associated with the secondary antiphospholipid syndrome


Clinical manifestations of antiphospholipid syndrome (APS) with and without antiphospholipid antibodies (the so-called ‘seronegative APS’)

Ann Rheum Dis 2012;71:242-244 doi:10.1136/annrheumdis-2011-200614. Conclusions: Classic and SN-APS patients show similar clinical profiles. The results suggest that clinical management in patients with APS should not be based only on the presence of conventional aPL.


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