Antiphospholipid syndrome is an autoimmune disease that preferentially affects women. Patients with APS are typically given different medications to reduce their risk of blood clotting and help normalize lab values such as ...
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The Geneva University Hospitals (HUG), the University of Geneva (UNIGE) and their spin-off Endotelix have created a possible target molecule for the antibodies responsible for antiphospholipid syndrome. This discovery will ...
Nov 1, 2022
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Miscarriage affects an estimated 15% of pregnancies, but in about half of cases the cause is unclear. At Yale, reproductive immunologist Vikki Abrahams and reproductive biologist Mancy Tong are interested in shining a light ...
May 27, 2022
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Each year, around two of every 100,000 American adults receive a new diagnosis of antiphospholipid syndrome, or APS, an autoimmune disease known to cause inflammation and recurring, potentially fatal, blood clots. The number ...
Mar 22, 2022
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Researchers at Michigan Medicine have discovered yet another functional autoantibody in COVID-19 patients that contributes to the disease's development and the "firestorm" of blood clots and inflammation it induces.
Jul 19, 2021
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A research group centered around Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine's Professor Yamada Hideto and Associate Professor Tanimura Kenji (Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology), and Professor Arase Hisashi et al. of ...
Jul 22, 2020
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General practitioners and physicians are being urged to keep a careful eye on the potentially deadly condition of deep vein thrombosis because the signs and symptoms of DVT are non-specific and often difficult to diagnose, ...
Jun 17, 2019
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Levels of antiphospholipid antibodies, which are associated with rheumatic diseases, are also elevated in myocardial infarction without any autoimmune co-morbidity, a study from Karolinska Institutet in Sweden published in ...
Oct 23, 2018
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The gut microbiomes of patients with antiphospholipid syndrome show higher levels of phospholipid-producing bacteria, and this findings point to microbes being a trigger for this life-threatening disease, according to new ...
Nov 13, 2016
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A new statin treatment shows promise for reducing premature births and increasing babies' chances of survival for mothers with an autoimmune disease. The small preliminary study of 21 women, published in the Journal of Clinical ...
Jul 25, 2016
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