Table 1.
Author, year (ref.) | Study design | Number of controls (feature) | Number of patients (event) | ELISA | Isotype | Sensit. (%) | OR | P |
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Forastiero et al., 1997 [12] | R | 89 (no obstetric complications) | 44 (obstetric complications) | aPT-A | IgG | 20 | 1.4 | ns |
IgM | 12 | 1.8 | ns | |||||
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Akimoto et al., 2001 [17] | P | 12 (healthy nonpregnant) | 19 (abortion <13th WG) | aPT-A | IgG | 58 | <0.01 | |
36 (normal pregnancy) | 28 (severe preeclampsia) | aPT-A | IgG | 36 | <0.01 | |||
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Tsutsumi et al., 2001 [16] | R | 81 (≥2 recurrent miscarriages) | aPS/PT | IgG | 0 | |||
IgM | 0 | |||||||
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Sugiura-Ogasawara et al., 2004 [15] | R | 100 (≥2 recurrent miscarriages) | aPS/PT | IgG | 1 | |||
IgM | 0 | |||||||
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Bertolaccini et al., 2005 [18] | R(M) | 71 (healthy) | 40 (recurrent abortions <10th WG) | aPS/PT | IgG | 12 | 1.2 | ns |
IgM | 9 | 1.4 | ns | |||||
aPT-A | IgG | 11 | 0.9 | ns | ||||
IgM | 0 | 0.2 | ns | |||||
37 (fetal death >10th WG) | aPS/PT | IgG | 17 | 3.3 | 0.005 | |||
IgM | 13 | 3.7 | 0.006 | |||||
aPT-A | IgG | 19 | 4.1 | 0.0007 | ||||
IgM | 1 | 0.5 | ns | |||||
29 (prematurity <34th WG preeclampsia/eclampsia/placental insufficiency) | aPS/PT | IgG | 9 | 1.2 | ns | |||
IgM | 5 | 0.9 | ns | |||||
aPT-A | IgG | 10 | 1.4 | ns | ||||
IgM | 0 | 0.3 | ns | |||||
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Nojima et al., 2006 [13] | R(M) | 74 (healthy) | 14 (fetal loss) | aPS/PT | 21 | 1.49 | ns | |
aPT-A | 14 | 0.25 | ns | |||||
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Sabatini et al., 2007 [21] | RCC | 200 (pregnant, gestational/age matched) | 100 (pregnant, past ≥3 recurrent abortions <20th WG) | aPT-A | IgG | 37 | <0.001 | |
IgM | 18 | <0.001 | ||||||
IgA | 4 | ns | ||||||
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Marozio et al., 2011 [3] | RCC | 163 (uneventful pregnancy) | 163 (adverse late pregnancy outcome) | aPT-A | IgG | 26 | 9.1 | <0.001 |
IgM | 2 | na | ns | |||||
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Sater et al., 2012 [14] | RCC | 288 | 277 (≥3 miscarriages <12th WG) | aPT-A | IgM | 4 | 14.27 | ns |
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Vlagea et al., 2013 [19] | R | / | 71 (obstetric abnormalities) | aPS/PT | IgG | 25 | 2.37 | 0.04 |
IgM | 27 | 1.32 | ns | |||||
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Žigon et al., 2013 [20] | R(M) | 55 (no obstetric complications) | 28 (APS obstetric abnormalities) | aPS/PT | IgG | 64 | 9.3 | <0.001 |
IgM | 54 | 4.0 | <0.005 |
Medline query with keywords “antiprothrombin antibodies” and “pregnancy/obstetric/miscarriages/fetal loss” in various combinations yielded the documented reports. R: retrospective study, R(M): retrospective study with multivariate analyses, P: prospective study, RCC: retrospective case control study, ns: not significant, WG: week of gestation, OR: odds ratio, and Sensit.: diagnostic sensitivity.