title: Lupus anticoagulant, thrombosis, and death.
abstract: In this issue of Blood, Gebhart et al report a prospective observational cohort study evaluating 151 patients with persistently positive lupus anticoagulant (LA) for a median period of 8.2 years. They observed increased mortality in LA-positive patients, mainly due to new thrombotic events.
authors.affiliation: ISTANBUL BILIM UNIVERSITY.
authors.forename: Reyhan
authors.identifier: http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5814-7118
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Diz-Küçükkaya
mesh_terms: D016736:Antiphospholipid Syndrome / Q000401:mortality*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D016682:Lupus Coagulation Inhibitor / Q000097:blood*; D008297:Male; D011247:Pregnancy; D013927:Thrombosis / Q000401:mortality*
chemical_list: D016682:Lupus Coagulation Inhibitor