
Episode 62: Problems during pregnancy with Jacqueline Galvan part 1
Anesthesia and Critical Care Reviews and Commentary (ACCRAC) Podcast
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Anti-Phospholipid Syndrome
Antiphospholipid syndrome is mostly parallel to chronic placentaal infarction. It's associated with autoantibodies against cell membrane lipids they really confers the patient in to be a hypercoagulable state despite some of the terminology used though for example lupus anticoagulant which is an autoantibody under the spectrum of antiphospholIPid syndrome is not actually an anticoagULant it's a laboratory artifact that artificially prolongs the PTT, as we've discussed before.
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