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Management of antiphospholipid antibody positivity and elective orthopedic procedures
W M Schnitz1, K A Lister, G A McCarty
1Division of Rheumatology and Immunology, Oklahoma Memorial Hospital, Oklahoma City.
Lupus
|May 1, 1992
Abstract:
Current management of primary or secondary antiphospholipid antibody (aPL) syndromes with known embolic phenomena requiring anticoagulation is empiric in the setting of elective orthopedic procedures. Short-term withdrawal of warfarin with continuance of aspirin and glucocorticoid therapy was undertaken for sequential bilateral knee replacements in a lupus patient with aPL. Her course was successfully managed without thrombo-embolic complications.