From 1Rheumatology/Internal Medicine, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston;
2University of the West Indies, Mona Campus, Kingston, Jamaica; 3Pinnacle Health …

Objectives We evaluate the performance characteristics of antiphosphatidylserine (anti-PS),
antiphosphatidylinositol (anti-PI), and antiphospholipid mixture (APhL) enzyme-linked …

Antibodies that bind phospholipid (anti-phospholipid antibodies [APA]) are a focus of major
interest to both clinical and laboratory personnel across a variety of disciplines because of …

An anticardiolipin antibody (ACA) assay has become a laboratory standard for the detection
of antiphospholipid antibodies. We evaluated data from a quality assurance program to …

Objective Antiphospholipid (aPL) antibodies are present in patients with systemic lupus
erythematosus (SLE) and/or antiphospholipid antibody syndrome (APS) and are associated …

The reproducibility and reliability of ELISA assays used to detect autoantibodies that
recognize cardiolipin or β2-glycoprotein I remain unacceptable, which can complicate the …

The disputed nomenclature of the antibodies associated with the antiphospholipid syndrome
(APS) can easily confuse the reader. In this paper we use the historical terms; …

Research on antiphospholipid antibodies (aPL) and the thrombotic manifestations
associated with these antibodies has grown almost logarithmically since the description of …

There is no doubt that in some individuals the presence of antibodiesto negatively charged
phospholipids currently measured as the lupusanticoagulant, a biologically false positive …

In the last 15 years the approach to patients with thrombosis or recurrent fetal loss
associated with antiphospholipid antibodies (aPL) has profoundly changed and their quality …