scholarly journals POS0712 “EXTRA”- CRITERIA ANTIPHOSPHOLIPID ANTIBODIES IN PATIENTS WITH ANTIPHOSPHOLIPID SYNDROME AND SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS (PRELIMINARY DATA)

2021 ◽  
Vol 80 (Suppl 1) ◽  
pp. 605.2-606
Author(s):  
F. Cheldieva ◽  
T. Reshetnyak ◽  
M. Cherkasova ◽  
N. Seredavkina ◽  
A. Lila

Background:The study of antiphospholipid antibodies (aPL), not included in the Sydney diagnostic criteria, in antiphospholipid syndrome (APS) and systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is poorly understood.Objectives:To determine the frequency of detection of IgA-aCL and IgA-aβ2GP1 and IgG antibodies to β2GP1 domain 1 (IgG-aβ2GP1-D1) in patients with APS with and without SLE.Methods:ELISA and chemiluminescence assays (CMA) were used to test 63 sera of patients: 22 (35%) with primary APS (pAPS) and 41 (65%) patients with APS and with SLE (secondary APS (sAPS)), with mean age 38,0 [33,0 – 43,0] years and disease duration 4,0 [0,1 – 9,9]. Both methods were used to test of IgG/IgM-aCL and IgG/IgM-aβ2GP1. CMA was used for research IgG/IgM/IgA-aCL, IgG/IgM/IgA-aβ2GPI and IgG-aβ2GP1-D1. Of them 49 (78%) (18 – with pAPS; 31 – with sAPS) displayed major thrombotic events and 18 of 22 pregnant women had pregnancy morbidity in past history. Lupus anticoagulant (LA) positivity was in 9 out of 12 patients who had it determined. LA was not investigated due to anticoagulant therapy in the remaining 52 patients.Results:IgG/IgM-aCL and IgG/IgM-aß2GP1 were recorded in 44/18 and 50/17 patients by ELISA and in 55/19 and 59/16 by CMA, respectively.IgA-aCL positivity was found in 35 (56%) of 63 patients. Thirty IgA-positive patients were positive for IgG-aCL by ELISA: 22 – IgG-aCL – highly positive, 6 – medium positive and 2 – low positive patients. IgM-aCL by ELISA was detected in 13 (37%) of 35 IgA-aCL positive patients: 11 – highly positive, 1 – medium positive and 1 – low positive. IgA-aCL was combined with IgG-aCL in 34 patients and with IgM-aCL in 16 patients in the CMA. IgG-aß2GP1 in ELISA was detected in 32 patients with IgA-aCL (24 –highly positive, 5 – medium positive and 3 – low positive) and in 34 – in CMA. IgM-aß2GP1 was combined with IgA-aß2GP1 with the same frequency in both methods (in 13 patients).IgA-aß2GP1 was detected in 30 (48%) of 63 patients. They were combined with both IgG-aCL and IgG-aß2GP1 in all cases in both methods. IgM-aCL and IgM-aß2GP1 were detected in 14 and 11 of 30 patients with IgA-aß2GP1, respectively. The combination of IgA-aß2GP1 with IgG-aCL by ELISA was in 27 (in most cases highly positive – 20) and with IgM-aCL – in 10 (highly positive - 8). IgG-aß2GP1 was detected in 28 patients with IgA-aß2GP1 (high positive – 21) and in 11 patients with IgM-aß2GP1 (high positive –7).IgG-aß2GP1-D1 was revealed in 48 (76%) patients. It was combined with IgG-aCL – in 38, with IgM-aCL – in 15 patients by the ELISA. The combination of IgG-aß2GP1-D1 by CMA was as follows: with IgG-aCL – in 46, with IgM-aCL – in 17, and with IgA-aCL – in 33 patients. In most cases, IgG-aß2gp1-D1 was combined with highly positive aCL levels. IgG-aß2GP1-D1 positivity was associated with IgG-aß2GP1 positivity in 42 – by ELISA and 47 – by CMA, IgМ-aβ2GP1 – in 13 and 14 patients by ELISA and CMA, respectively, and IgA-aß2GP1 – in 29. Isolated IgG-aß2GP1-D1 positivity was not observed.Conclusion:The frequency of IgA-aCL detection was 56% (35 patients out of 63), IgA-aβ2GP1 – 48% (30 patients out of 63), IgG-aβ2GP1-D1 – 76% (48 patients out of 63). There was not isolated positivity of this “extra” criterial antibodies. The presence of IgA-aCL, IgA-aβ2GP1, IgG-aβ2GP1-D1 was associated with highly positivity of IgG/IgM-aCL and IgG/IgM- aβ2GP1.Disclosure of Interests:None declared

2021 ◽  
Vol 66 (9) ◽  
pp. 546-551
Author(s):  
F. A. Cheldieva ◽  
T. M. Reshetnyak ◽  
M. V. Cherkasova ◽  
A. M. Lila

Antiphospholipid antibodies (aPL) are a family of different autoantibodies that lead to recurrent vascular thrombosis of any localization and caliber, and/or obstetric pathology - fetal loss. Serological markers of antiphospholipid syndrome (APS) include only three types of aPL - lupus anticoagulant (VA), antibodies to cardiolipin (aCL) classes IgG and IgM, antibodies to β2-glycoprotein1 (aβ2GP1) classes IgG and IgM. Medium and high levels of aCL and aß2HP1 (IgG and / or IgM) were selected as serological markers of APS in the 2006 classification criteria. However, the threshold of values used from low to moderately high levels has not been standardized. aPL standardization issues are still unresolved, resulting in heterogeneous results of the ongoing studies. The aim of the study was to assess the comparability IgG/IgM-aCL and IgG/IgM-ab2GP1 by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay and chemiluminescent analysis in patients with APS with and without (systemic lupus erythematosus) SLE. The study included 70 patients (49 women and 21 men) with APS, of which 21 (30%) were with primary APS (pAPS) and 49 (70%) with APS in combination with SLE. All study participants underwent determination of IgG/IgM-aCL and IgG/IgM-aβ2GP1 by enzyme-linked immunosorbent. A study was performed by the chemiluminescent analysis: IgG/IgM-aCL - in 70 patients; IgG/IgM-aβ2GP1 - in 69 patients. Results. According to preliminary data, the determination of IgG-aCL and IgG-aβ2GP1 by the chemiluminescent analysis is informative in assessing positivity according to the manufacturer, compared with the enzyme-linked immunosorbent (p < 0.05). However, when taking into account the levels of antibody positivity determined by enzyme-linked immunosorbent, the level of positive values according to chemiluminescent analysis was much higher than the performance of the manufacturer.


2009 ◽  
Vol 36 (6) ◽  
pp. 1195-1199 ◽  
Author(s):  
ADRIANA DANOWSKI ◽  
MARIO NEWTON LEITÃO de AZEVEDO ◽  
JOSE ANGELO de SOUZA PAPI ◽  
MICHELLE PETRI

Objective.Antiphospholipid syndrome (APS) is characterized by thrombosis (venous and arterial) and pregnancy loss in conjunction with the lupus anticoagulant, IgG or IgM anticardiolipin, or IgG or IgM anti-ß2-glycoprotein I. In most series, only a minority of patients with antiphospholipid antibodies develop a clinical manifestation.Methods.A cross-sectional study of consecutive patients in the Hopkins Lupus Center was performed. Interviews were done and records were reviewed for the following variables: gender, ethnicity, hypertension, triglycerides, cholesterol, smoking, diabetes mellitus, homocysteine, cancer, hepatitis C, hormone replacement therapy/oral contraceptives, hereditary thrombophilia, anticardiolipin antibodies IgG, IgM and IgA, and lupus anticoagulant (LAC). Our aim was to identify risk factors associated with thrombosis and pregnancy loss in patients with antiphospholipid antibodies.Results.A total of 122 patients (84% female, 74% Caucasian) were studied. Patients were divided into 3 groups: primary APS, APS associated with systemic lupus erythematosus, and patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) with antiphospholipid antibodies but no thrombosis or pregnancy loss. Venous thrombosis was associated with high triglycerides (p = 0.001), hereditary thrombophilia (p = 0.02), anticardiolipin antibodies IgG > 40 (p = 0.04), and LAC (p = 0.012). Hypertriglyceridemia was associated with a 6.4-fold increase, hereditary thrombophilia with a 7.3-fold increase, and anticardiolipin IgG > 40 GPL with a 2.8-fold increase in the risk of venous thrombosis. Arterial thrombosis was associated with hypertension (p = 0.008) and elevated homocysteine (p = 0.044). Hypertension was associated with a 2.4-fold increase in the risk of arterial thrombosis. No correlations were found for pregnancy loss.Conclusion.The frequency of thrombosis and pregnancy loss is greater in APS associated with SLE than in primary APS. Risk factors differ for venous and arterial thrombosis in APS. Treatment of hypertension may be the most important intervention to reduce arterial thrombosis. Elevated triglycerides are a major associate of venous thrombosis, but the benefit of treatment is not known. Hereditary thrombophilia is an associate of venous but not arterial thrombosis, making it cost-effective to investigate only in venous thrombosis.


Author(s):  
Alan J. Hakim ◽  
Gavin P.R. Clunie ◽  
Inam Haq

Introduction 344 Epidemiology and pathology 345 Clinical features of antiphospholipid syndrome 346 Treatment of antiphospholipid syndrome 348 Catastrophic antiphospholipid syndrome 350 The antiphospholipid syndrome (APS) was first described in the 1980s and comprises arterial and venous thrombosis with or without pregnancy morbidity in the presence of anticardiolipin (ACL) antibodies or the lupus anticoagulant (LAC). It can be primary, or secondary to other autoimmune diseases, most commonly systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) (...


2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Simona Caraiola ◽  
Alina Dima ◽  
Ciprian Jurcut ◽  
Ruxandra Jurcut ◽  
Cristian Baicus ◽  
...  

Abstract Objective To identify the osteoprotegerin (OPG) correlates with antiphospholipid syndrome (APS) parameters. Methods Our cohort included 40 patients with primary APS disease associated with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) (mean age, 43.7 years; 87% female). Data on cardiovascular risk factors and specific clinical events in APS were collected. Then we tested OPG and 10 criteria and noncriteria antiphospholipid antibodies (aPLs) on preserved specimens in all cases. Results A total of 26 patients (65%) had high serum OPG levels. Patients with high OPG were mostly overweight. In patients with SLE, the OPG levels were associated with anti–double-stranded DNA (anti-dsDNA) and anti-Sm titers. However, we did not find significant correlations of the OPG with any of the 10 aPLs tested. Also, we found no relationship regarding venous APS events. Conclusion In APS, high OPG levels are not linked to serum aPL expression.


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