SERONEGATIVE ANTIPHOSPHOLIPID ANTIBODY SYNDROME (SNAPS)…AND SNAPPING TO IT!!

By: Gale McCarty, MD, FACR, FACP “You don’t have the syndrome because your tests are low level or negative…” or “You have livedo, a heart valve problem, and thrombocytopenia, but these aren’t listed as criteria for diagnosis” are comments made frequently by healthcare providers from many specialties to patients with clinical features suggesting the Antiphospholipid Antibody Syndrome (APS).

http://www.apsfa.org/docs/APSFAVol2Summer2006.pdf