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ReviewClinical reviews in allergy & immunology2017

Additional Treatments for High-Risk Obstetric Antiphospholipid Syndrome: a Comprehensive Review.

Amelia Ruffatti, Ariela Hoxha, Maria Favaro, Marta Tonello, Anna Colpo, Umberto Cucchini, Alessandra Banzato, Vittorio Pengo

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Review in Clinical reviews in allergy & immunology, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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8citing papers in PubMed
3.9field-weighted citation impact, top 7% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

8 citing papers in PubMed, 20 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Review
  2. B Cell Tolerance and Obstetric Antiphospholipid Syndrome.Clinical reviews in allergy & immunology · 2025
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  7. Autoimmunity in 2016.Clinical reviews in allergy & immunology · 2017
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Amelia RuffattiRheumatology Unit, Department of Medicine, University of Padua, Padua, Italy. amelia.ruffatti@unipd.it.
Ariela HoxhaRheumatology Unit, Department of Medicine, University of Padua, Padua, Italy.
Maria FavaroRheumatology Unit, Department of Medicine, University of Padua, Padua, Italy.
Marta TonelloRheumatology Unit, Department of Medicine, University of Padua, Padua, Italy.
Anna ColpoBlood Transfusion Unit, University-Hospital of Padua, Padua, Italy.
Umberto CucchiniCardiology Unit, Department of Cardio-Thoracic and Vascular Sciences, University of Padua, Padua, Italy.
Alessandra BanzatoCardiology Unit, Department of Cardio-Thoracic and Vascular Sciences, University of Padua, Padua, Italy.
Vittorio PengoCardiology Unit, Department of Cardio-Thoracic and Vascular Sciences, University of Padua, Padua, Italy.
University of Padua · IT

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Most investigators currently advocate prophylactic-dose heparin plus low-dose aspirin as the preferred treatment of otherwise healthy women with obstetric antiphospholipid syndrome, whilst women with a history of vascular thrombosis alone or associated with pregnancy morbidity are usually treated with therapeutic heparin doses in association with low-dose aspirin in an attempt to prevent both thrombosis and pregnancy morbidity. However, the protocols outlined above fail in about 20 % of pregnant women with antiphospholipid syndrome. Identifying risk factors associated with pregnancy failure when conventional therapies are utilized is an important step in establishing guidelines to manage these high-risk patients. Some clinical and laboratory risk factors have been found to be related to maternal-foetal complications in pregnant women on conventional therapy. However, the most efficacious treatments to administer to high-risk antiphospholipid syndrome women in addition to conventional therapy in order to avoid pregnancy complications are as yet unestablished. This is a comprehensive review on this topic and an invitation to participate in a multicentre study in order to identify the best additional treatments to be used in this subset of antiphospholipid syndrome patients.

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Antiphospholipid SyndromeFemaleHumansImmunoglobulins, IntravenousPregnancyPregnancy ComplicationsPregnancy OutcomeRisk FactorsTreatment OutcomeImmunoglobulins, IntravenousAdditional treatmentObstetric antiphospholipid syndromeRisk factorTreatment

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PMID27342460
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