DOI: 10.1055/s-00000077

Seminars in Thrombosis and Hemostasis

Issue 04 · Volume 34 · June 2008 DOI: 10.1055/s-002-13166 Antiphospholipid Antibodies and the Antiphospholipid Syndrome II: Limitations, Standardization, and Clinical Utility of Laboratory Testing Emmanuel J Favaloro Ph.D. M.A.I.M.S. Richard C.W Wong F.R.C.P. F.R.A.C.P. F.R.C.P.A.

EULOGY

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Schiff, Daniel: Eberhard Mammen, M.D. 1930–2008

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Favaloro, Emmanuel J.: EDITORIAL
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Pierangeli, Silvia S.; Harris, E. Nigel: A Quarter of a Century in Anticardiolipin Antibody Testing and Attempted Standardization Has Led Us to Here, which Is?
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Galli, Monica: Clinical Utility of Laboratory Tests Used to Identify Antiphospholipid Antibodies and to Diagnose the Antiphospholipid Syndrome
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Oku, Kenji; Atsumi, Tatsuya; Amengual, Olga; Koike, Takao: Antiprothrombin Antibody Testing: Detection and Clinical Utility
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Reber, Guido; Boehlen, Françoise; de Moerloose, Philippe: Technical Aspects in Laboratory Testing for Antiphospholipid Antibodies: Is Standardization an Impossible Dream?
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de Groot, Philip G.; Derksen, Ronald H. W. M.; de Laat, Bas: Twenty-two Years of Failure to Set Up Undisputed Assays to Detect Patients with the Antiphospholipid Syndrome
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Andreoli, Laura; Rizzini, Silvia; Allegri, Flavio; Meroni, Pierluigi; Tincani, Angela: Are the Current Attempts at Standardization of Antiphospholipid Antibodies Still Useful? Emerging Technologies Signal a Shift in Direction
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Wong, Richard C. W.; Favaloro, Emmanuel J.: A Consensus Approach to the Formulation of Guidelines for Laboratory Testing and Reporting of Antiphospholipid Antibody Assays
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Tripodi, Armando: Laboratory Testing for Lupus Anticoagulants: Diagnostic Criteria and Use of Screening, Mixing, and Confirmatory Studies
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Ledford-Kraemer, Marlies R.: Laboratory Testing for Lupus Anticoagulants: Preexamination Variables, Mixing Studies, and Diagnostic Criteria
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Favaloro, Emmanuel J.; Wong, Richard C. W.: Laboratory Testing and Identification of Antiphospholipid Antibodies and the Antiphospholipid Syndrome: A Potpourri of Problems, a Compilation of Possible Solutions

PREFACE

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Favaloro, Emmanuel J.; Wong, Richard C. W.: Antiphospholipid Antibodies and the Antiphospholipid Syndrome II: Limitations, Standardization, and Clinical Utility of Laboratory Testing

ERRATA

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Fareed, Jawed; Hoppensteadt, Debra A.; Fareed, Daniel; Demir, Muzaffer; Wahi, Rakesh; Clarke, Melaine; Adiguzel, Cafer; Bick, Rodger: Survival of Heparins, Oral Anticoagulants, and Aspirin after the Year 2010

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: CSL Behring-Prof. Heimburger Award: CSL Behring Funds Global Grants for the Next Generation of Coagulation Researchers