[New alternatives for the treatment of antiphospholipid syndrome. A literature review]

Rev Med Chil. 2013 Aug;141(8):1041-8. doi: 10.4067/S0034-98872013000800011.
[Article in Spanish]

Abstract

For years the mainstay of antiphospholipid syndrome treatment has been anticoagulation and antiplatelet therapy, but the autoimmune nature of the disease, and complications of these therapies, created the need to develop new therapeutic strategies. New therapeutic alternatives inhibit at different levels, the cascade of events leading to the pro-thrombotic state characteristic of the antiphospholipid syndrome. We conducted a literature review of these new treatments, focusing on the pathophysiological bases that support them and their possible clinical applications.

Publication types

  • English Abstract
  • Review

MeSH terms

  • Agmatine / analogs & derivatives
  • Agmatine / therapeutic use
  • Antibodies, Monoclonal, Murine-Derived / therapeutic use
  • Antiphospholipid Syndrome / drug therapy*
  • Antiphospholipid Syndrome / physiopathology
  • Dipeptides / therapeutic use
  • Glucocorticoids / therapeutic use
  • Humans
  • Hydroxychloroquine / therapeutic use
  • Hydroxymethylglutaryl-CoA Reductase Inhibitors / therapeutic use
  • Rituximab
  • Thrombosis / drug therapy

Substances

  • Antibodies, Monoclonal, Murine-Derived
  • Dipeptides
  • Glucocorticoids
  • Hydroxymethylglutaryl-CoA Reductase Inhibitors
  • estatin B
  • estatin A
  • Rituximab
  • Hydroxychloroquine
  • Agmatine