Discouraging Non-ELISA antiphospholipid antibody assays in antiphospholipid syndrome classification may hinder clinical research

Affiliations

• ¹ Department of Pathology, University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center, Cleveland, OH, USA. [email protected].
• ² Case Western Reserve University, School of Medicine, Cleveland, OH, USA. [email protected].
• ³ Clinical Pathology, Azienda Sanitaria Universitaria Integrata, Udine, Italy.
• ⁴ Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA.
• ⁵ University of Utah School of Medicine and ARUP Laboratories, Salt Lake City, UT, USA.
• ⁶ Laboratory of Immunology and Allergy, San Giovanni di Dio Hospital, Florence, Italy.
• ⁷ Immunopathology Laboratory, Regional San Carlo Hospital, Potenza, Italy.
• ⁸ Laboratory Medicine, UZ Leuven and Clinical and Diagnostic Immunology, KU Leuven, Louvain, Belgium.
• ⁹ Central Diagnostic Laboratory, University Medical Center, Maastricht, The Netherlands.