Recent Advances in Antiphospholipid Syndrome

Dear colleagues,

Although guidelines of international society of thrombosis and haemostatis (ISTH) and America rheumatology association are available from several years to suggest diagnosis and treatments for primary and secondary antiphospholipid syndrome several issues are frequently debated in the daily clinical practice.

Immunomediated thrombosis recognises different pathophysiological mechanisms from traditional arterial and venous thrombosis and new pathophysiological mechanisms are recently described.

Furthermore, clinical presentation differs in young patients or adult patients, and also, therapeutic support offers different outcomes in patients with primary or secondary antiphospholipid syndrome.

Furthermore, the follow-up strategy of carriers of asymptomatic abnormal values of antiphospholipid antibodies is still debated.

Therefore, this Special Issue is dedicated to scholars that may offer their clinical and laboratory experience in the management of clinical overt antiphospholipid syndrome or asymptomatic carriers of antiphospholipid antibodies.

We think that this is still an intriguing clinical issue, and we hope that scholars around world agree.

Dr. Pierpaolo Di Micco
Guest Editor

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