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

  • 305
    Schiff, Daniel:

    Eberhard Mammen, M.D. 1930–2008

  • 307
    Favaloro, Emmanuel J.:

    EDITORIAL

  • 313
    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?

  • 329
    Galli, Monica:

    Clinical Utility of Laboratory Tests Used to Identify Antiphospholipid Antibodies and to Diagnose the Antiphospholipid Syndrome

  • 335
    Oku, Kenji; Atsumi, Tatsuya; Amengual, Olga; Koike, Takao:

    Antiprothrombin Antibody Testing: Detection and Clinical Utility

  • 340
    Reber, Guido; Boehlen, Françoise; de Moerloose, Philippe:

    Technical Aspects in Laboratory Testing for Antiphospholipid Antibodies: Is Standardization an Impossible Dream?

  • 347
    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

  • 356
    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

  • 361
    Wong, Richard C. W.; Favaloro, Emmanuel J.:

    A Consensus Approach to the Formulation of Guidelines for Laboratory Testing and Reporting of Antiphospholipid Antibody Assays

  • 373
    Tripodi, Armando:

    Laboratory Testing for Lupus Anticoagulants: Diagnostic Criteria and Use of Screening, Mixing, and Confirmatory Studies

  • 380
    Ledford-Kraemer, Marlies R.:

    Laboratory Testing for Lupus Anticoagulants: Preexamination Variables, Mixing Studies, and Diagnostic Criteria

  • 389
    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

  • 309
    Favaloro, Emmanuel J.; Wong, Richard C. W.:

    Antiphospholipid Antibodies and the Antiphospholipid Syndrome II: Limitations, Standardization, and Clinical Utility of Laboratory Testing

    • ERRATA

  • 411
    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

    • ANNOUNCEMENT

  • 413
    :

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