Useful For

The following clinical situations, when used in conjunction with other criterial antiphospholipid antibody tests:

-Unexplained arterial or venous thrombosis

-A history of pregnancy morbidity defined as 1 or more unexplained deaths of a morphologically normal fetus beyond the 10th week of gestation, 1 or more premature births before 34 weeks of gestation caused by severe preeclampsia or placental insufficiency, or 3 or more unexplained, consecutive spontaneous abortions before the 10th week of gestation with no identifiable maternal hormonal or anatomic, or maternal or paternal chromosomal causes

-Presence of a systemic autoimmune rheumatic disease especially systemic lupus erythematosus

-Presence of an unexplained cutaneous manifestations varying from livedo reticularis to cutaneous necrosis such as leg ulcers

-Unexplained thrombocytopenia

-Possible nonbacterial, thrombotic endocarditis