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CLINICAL RHEUMATOLOGY
Volume 36, Issue 3, Pages 599-608Publisher
SPRINGER LONDON LTD
DOI: 10.1007/s10067-017-3549-1
Keywords
Anti-phospholipid syndrome; Clinical; Cohort; Laboratory
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [81373211, 81671589, 81601400]
- Shanghai Sailing Program [16YF1407000]
- Prairie fire program [LYJH-358]
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This study aims to characterize the Chinese Han patients with anti-phospholipid syndrome (APS) and compare the data with those of the Euro-Phospholipid cohort. We conducted a single center study consisting of 252 patients with definite APS from 2000 to 2015. We analyzed the clinical and laboratory characteristics of our cohort and compared the data with those of the Euro-Phospholipid cohort. Our cohort consisted of 216 females and 36 males, with a mean age at entry into this study of 41 years (range 11-74 years). Of these patients, 69 (27.4%) patients had primary APS, and 183 (72.6%) had secondary APS (SAPS), including 163 (64.7%) patients had systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). Thrombotic events occurred in 190 (75.4%) patients, and the most common ones were deep vein thrombosis (40.1%) and stroke (23.8%), which were similar to the reports of the Euro-Phospholipid cohort. In contrast, our cohort had less pulmonary embolism (6.7%). Among 93 females with 299 pregnancy episodes, the rates of early (< 10 weeks) and late fetal loss (ae10 weeks) were, respectively, 37.8% and 24.4%. The latter was significantly higher than that of the Euro-Phospholipid cohort. Moreover, 7 APS nephropathy patients (characterized histopathologically by thrombotic microangiopathy) and 8 catastrophic APS patients were found in our cohort. Anti-cardiolipin antibodies (aCL) were detected in 169 (67.1%) patients, lupus anti-coagulant (LA) was detected in 83 (32.9%), and anti-beta 2 glycoprotein I antibodies (anti-beta 2GPI) in 148 (58.7%) patients. These results show that some clinical manifestations of APS may vary among different racial groups.
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