APS Foundation's Blog

APS is associated with recurrent clotting events including premature stroke, repeated miscarriages, phlebitis, venous thrombosis and pulmonary thromboembolism. Recently, however, even more disease states have been linked with APL including premature heart attack, migraine headaches, various cardiac valvular abnormalities, skin lesions, abnormal movement/chorea, diseases that mimic multiple sclerosis, vascular diseases of the eye that can lead to visual loss and blindness.

Friday, May 25, 2007

June is APS Awareness Month: Get in the Flow!

June is APS Awareness Month: Get in the Flow!

The APS Foundation of America, Inc. (APSFA) has declared June as National Antiphospholipid

Antibody (APS) Awareness Month. We are educating the public and medical community about this

disorder, urging people to Get in the Flow!

http://www.apsfa.org/docs/APSFAVol5Spring2007.pdf

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