Assessment of the 2006 revised antiphospholipid syndrome classification criteria
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Comparison of the 1999 Sapporo and 2006 revised criteria for the classification of the antiphospholipid syndrome.
OBJECTIVES The 2006 revised criteria for antiphospholipid syndrome (APS) provide a new classification challenge, and studies validating the updated criteria against the older ones are still scanty. We compared the 1999 preliminary with the 2006 revised classification criteria for APS, and evaluated if the revised criteria provide an added value over the original ones. METHODS A laboratory-bas...
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عنوان ژورنال: Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases
سال: 2007
ISSN: 0003-4967
DOI: 10.1136/ard.2006.067314