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Neonatal antiphospholipid syndrome
Disease definition
Neonatal antiphospholipid syndrome is a rare, secondary, neonatal autoimmune disease characterized by single or recurrent episodes of venous, arterial or mixed thrombosis in a neonate whose mother does not have antiphospholipid syndrome manifestations. Patients present positive antiphospholipid antibodies and may have additional abnormalities associated (e.g. cardiac valve disease, livedo reticularis, thrombocytopenia, nephropathy, neurological manifestations).
ORPHA:398097
Classification level: Disorder- Synonym(s):
- Neonatal Hughes syndrome
- Neonatal antiphospholipid antibody syndrome
- Prevalence: <1 / 1 000 000
- Inheritance: -
- Age of onset: Neonatal
- ICD-10: D68.6
- OMIM: -
- UMLS: -
- MeSH: -
- GARD: -
- MedDRA: -
A summary on this disease is available in Español (2018) Italiano (2018) Nederlands (2018) Polski ()
Detailed information
Guidelines
- Clinical practice guidelines
- Español (2020, pdf) - Asoc Española de Pediatría
- Français (2022) - PNDS
- Anesthesia guidelines
- Czech (2015) - Orphananesthesia
- English (2015) - Orphananesthesia
- Español (2015) - Orphananesthesia


Additional information
Further information on this disease
Patient-centred resources for this disease
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