Pregnancy is associated with significant changes in several aspects of haemostasis, especially an imbalance between procoagulant and anticoagulant factors. These changes contribute to creating a state of hypercoagulability, mainly at the end of pregnancy and during the post-partum period, protecting pregnant women from delivery haemorrhage, but exposing them to a major thromboembolic risk. Vascular diseases of pregnancy (VDP) are obstetric diseases which are linked to an ischaemic origin associated with placental thrombosis. These include pre-eclampsia, retroplacental haematoma, intrauterine growth retardation and even foetal death in utero. A number of risk factors have been identified for these VDPs, some of which have extremely serious consequences, the main one being antiphospholipid syndrome (APS). The diagnosis of VDP in a current or previous pregnancy requires close monitoring and joint management by an obstetrician, haemostasis physician, internist and medical biologist, particularly in terms of pre, peri- and post-partum anticoagulation in patients at increased risk of thromboembolism. The aim of treating APS during pregnancy is : to reduce the occurrence of maternal arterial or venous thrombotic complications in one hand and in the other hand to reduce the occurrence of obstetric complications, which are responsible of a significant morbimortality rate. The detection of a possible APS during pregnancy will therefore determine the specific management of patients. The latest guidelines from the Groupe Français d'Etude sur l'Hémostase et la Thrombose (GFHT) in 2022 recommended a diluted Russell's viper venom time (dRVVT) and an activated partial thromboplastin time (APTT) measured using a sensitive reagent such as silica (SCT) should be used to assess the presence of LA.
Age range
18 Years – 50 Years
Sex
FEMALE
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dRVVT value during pregnancy.
Timeframe: through study completion, an average of 9 months