Abstract

GIRON, Juvenal; CASTILLO, María Betzabeth  and  CABRERA, José Alberto. Comportamiento de anticardiolipinas en gestantes. Rev Obstet Ginecol Venez [online]. 2014, vol.74, n.1, pp.10-14. ISSN 0048-7732.

Objective: Evaluate the levels of anticardiolipin antibodies for pregnant carrying the antiphospholipid syndrome that were treated in internal medicine, period 2001-2012. Methods: A descriptive, longitudinal non-experimental and field study. The population studied was 86 patients carrying the SAF, did not take into account the criteria in the interval of at least 12 weeks for definitive diagnosis. Results: In relation to the levels of IgM and IgG anticardiolipin antibodies the highest average (30.98) and (19.62) prevailed in the first trimester of pregnancy. The higher level of IgM was 198, while the lowest was 0.6 during the entire pregnancy. IgM anticardiolipin antibodies in the third quarter decreased by 55.81 % over the first quarter. Conclusions: Although antibody levels are unpredictable, in the latter stages of gestation IgM anticardiolipin antibodies decreased with respect to the early stages.

Keywords : Antiphospholipid syndrome; Antiphospholipid antibodies; Anticardiolipin antibodies; Pregnancy; Recurrent fetal loss.

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