Research Article
Elevated Serum Level of HMGB1 in Patients with the Antiphospholipid Syndrome
Table 1
Clinical characteristics of APS patients.
| | Characteristics, n (%) | APS
() | SAPS
() | PAPS
() |
| | Vascular thrombosis | 28 (93.3) | 19 (100) | 9 (81.8) | | Venous thrombosis | 18 (60) | 13 (68.4) | 5 (45.4) | | Arterial thrombosis | 13 (43.3) | 8 (42.1) | 5 (45.4) | | Recurrent thrombosis | 12 (40) | 9 (47.4) | 3 (27.3) |
| | Pregnancy morbidity | 9 (30) | 5 (26.3) | 4 (36.4) | | Normal fetus deaths | 2 (6.7) | 1 (5.26) | 1 (9.1) | | Premature births | 0 | 0 | 0 | | Spontaneous abortions | 8 (26.7) | 5 (26.3) | 3 (27.3) |
| | Vascular thrombosis and pregnancy morbidity | 7 (23.3) | 5(26.3) | 2 (18.2) |
| | Noncriteria APS features | 24 (80) | 16 (84.2) | 24 (80) | | Livedo reticularis | 12 (40) | 8 (42.1) | 4 (36.4) | | Thrombocytopenia | 7 (23.3) | 4 (21) | 3 (27.3) | | Migraine | 7 (23.3) | 6 (31.6) | 1 (9.1) | | Seizures | 4 (13.3) | 3 (15.8) | 1 (9.1) |
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APS: antiphospholipid syndrome; PAPS: primary APS; SAPS: secondary APS.
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