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Letters |15 June 1993

Anticardiolipin Antibodies and Hypercoagulability

David C. Hess, MD

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The failure to find anticardiolipin antibodies a risk factor for ischemic stroke may have more to do with the design of the Physicians' Health Study than the actual absence of the antibodies in stroke patients [1].
Rosove and Brewer [2] reported that the initial site of thrombosis in patients with antiphospholipid antibodies tended to predict the site of subsequent events. Patients with venous thrombosis tended to have recurrent venous thrombosis, whereas patients with arterial events such as stroke tended to have recurrent stroke and not a venous event. Patients were excluded from the Physicians' Health Study...
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Hess DC. Anticardiolipin Antibodies and Hypercoagulability. Ann Intern Med. 1993;118:986–987. doi: 10.7326/0003-4819-118-12-199306150-00020

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Published: Ann Intern Med. 1993;118(12):986-987.

DOI: 10.7326/0003-4819-118-12-199306150-00020

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