This site is intended as a research resource for medical professionals, patients and families who wish to learn more about a little known lethal, yet treatable, blood disorder that
causes hypercoagulation.
Early signs of this disease
are often diagnosed as many different disorders before being correctly diagnosed. This inability to correctly diagnose is not due to any form of medical inefficiency, but is due to the disease only being recognised in
the last 9 years, and it's ability to mimic the symptoms of a number of well known and documented diseases.
Even though I have a clinical diagnosis of APLS, wear an SOS Talisman bracelet and carry a medical
fact card on me, in an emergency the Accident and Emergency doctors still insist on treating the possibly catastrophic events as a Migraine.
I hope this site will help to raise the awareness of many doctors
and health care professionals, and give help and the comfort of understanding the problems to patients and their families.
Research into APS is still being completed at a number of hospitals and research
centres worldwide. The information within this site has been collected from their sites and from weekly updates from Medscape.com
I would be interested to hear from patients and doctors who have experience of Anti Phospholipid Syndrome (APS) and its associated disorders.
If these pages have been of interest or help please e-mail me at Eddie@apls.tk
with your comments and reasons for visiting the site, as this will help in assessing the need for updates.
If you have found this site helpful and are a return visitor, you will notice that there are a number of new additions in the menu of diseases. These have been added as a direct result of the APLS Survey, where it was noticed that many of these diseases are shared by patients with APLS. I will continue to add new pages as I research them, and any help with links or information would be greatly appreciated.
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