S4E1 - Women’s health series (part 1): Women’s health and coagulation
Welcome to Ask Stago, the Podcast dedicated to provide expert answers to your expert questions in coagulation.
In this series of our new season we will be covering Womens’ health and looking at the broader implications of coagulation and then speaking to a Lupus patient advocate on the impact this disease has had for her personally.
To start off, in today episode, we are delighted to speak to our Clinical Development Director, Dr Francois Depasse about the broader connection between Womens’ Health and coagulation and then a more in depth look at APS.
Links to related podcasts:
- S1E13 - Lupus anticoagulant diagnosis work-up https://www.podcastics.com/podcast/episode/13-the-lupus-anticoagulant-diagnosis-work-up-54015/
- S3E7 - Hemostasis results interpretation along pregnancy https://www.podcastics.com/podcast/episode/s3e7-hemostasis-results-interpretation-along-pregnancy-134753/
Literature sources:
- https://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/blooddisorders/women/facts.html
- Miyakis S, Lockshin MD, Atsumi T, Branch DW, Brey RL, Cervera R, Derksen RH, De Groot PG, Koike T, Meroni PL, Reber G, Shoenfeld Y, Tincani A, Vlachoyiannopoulos PG, Krilis SA. International consensus statement on an update of the classification criteria for definite antiphospholipid syndrome (APS). J Thromb Haemost 2006; 4: 295–306
- Devreese KMJ, Ortel TL, Pengo V, de Laat B; Subcommittee on Lupus anticoagulant/Antiphospholipid antibodies. Laboratory criteria for antiphospholipid syndrome: communication from the SSC of the ISTH. J Thromb Haemost 2018; 16: 809-813
- CLSI Laboratory testing for the Lupus anticoagulant - Approved Guideline. CLSI document H60-A. Wayne, PA; 2014.
- Devreese, KMJ, de Groot, PG, de Laat, B, et al. Guidance from the Scientific and Standardization Committee for lupus anticoagulant/antiphospholipid antibodies of the International Society on Thrombosis and Haemostasis. J Thromb Haemost. 2020; 18: 2828– 2839. https://doi.org/10.1111/jth.15047
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