Table 1 General characteristics of patients with catastrophic antiphospholipid syndrome during pregnancy or puerperium.

	Age (year)	Diagnosis	Previous obstetric history	Time of onset
Bendon et al11	22	SLE	No previous pregnancies	30 weeks of gestation
Hochfeld et al12	37	PAPS	Three previous spontaneous abortions	2nd day after fetal death
Kupferminc et al13	17	PAPS	No previous pregnancies	5th day of puerperium
Kitchens14	38	SLE	NR	38 weeks of gestation
Wislowska15	26	SLE	One previous successful pregnancy	25 weeks of gestation
Sinha et al16	22	SLE	No previous pregnancies	25 weeks of gestation
Asherson et al5	22	SLE	One spontaneous abortion	20 wks of gestation
Asherson et al5	27	PAPS	One fetal loss	Post‐fetal loss
Ortiz et al17	32	Lupus‐like	One second trimester fetal loss	2nd day of puerperium
Koenig et al18	19	PAPS	One miscarriage	17 weeks of gestation
Coward et al19	30	PAPS	No previous pregnancies	3rd weeks of puerperium
Wieser M et al*	33	PAPS	One first trimester spontaneous abortion	5th day of puerperium
Present case 1	29	SLE	Eight previous spontaneous abortions	28 weeks of gestation
Present case 2	26	SLE	Two previous fetal losses	3rd day of puerperium
Present case 3	28	PAPS	One second trimester fetal loss	6th day of puerperium

NR, not reported; PAPS, primary antiphospholipid syndrome; Ref, reference; SLE, systemic lupus erythematosus.

*Included previously in the “CAPS Registry”.