Published Ahead of Print on March 8, 2018, as doi:10.3324/haematol.2017.185132. Copyright 2018 Ferrata Storti Foundation. Recurrent thrombosis in patients with antiphospholipid antibodies treated with vitamin K antagonists or rivaroxaban by Ida Martinelli, Maria Abbattista, Paolo Bucciarelli, Armando Tripodi, Andrea Artoni, Francesca Gianniello, Cristina Novembrino, and Flora Peyvandi Haematologica 2018 [Epub ahead of print] Citation: Ida Martinelli, Maria Abbattista, Paolo Bucciarelli, Armando Tripodi, Andrea Artoni, Francesca Gianniello, Cristina Novembrino, and Flora Peyvandi. Recurrent thrombosis in patients with antiphospholipid antibodies treated with vitamin K antagonists or rivaroxaban. Haematologica. 2018; 103:xxx doi:10.3324/haematol.2017.185132 Publisher's Disclaimer. E-publishing ahead of print is increasingly important for the rapid dissemination of science. Haematologica is, therefore, E-publishing PDF files of an early version of manuscripts that have completed a regular peer review and have been accepted for publication. E-publishing of this PDF file has been approved by the authors. After having E-published Ahead of Print, manuscripts will then undergo technical and English editing, typesetting, proof correction and be presented for the authors' final approval; the final version of the manuscript will then appear in print on a regular issue of the journal. All legal disclaimers that apply to the journal also pertain to this production process.
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Supplemental material for: RECURRENT THROMBOSIS IN PATIENTS WITH ANTIPHOSPHOLIPID ANTIBODIES TREATED WITH VITAMIN K ANTAGONISTS OR RIVAROXABAN Ida Martinelli 1, Maria Abbattista 1, Paolo Bucciarelli 1, Armando Tripodi 1-2, Andrea Artoni 1, Francesca Gianniello 1, Cristina Novembrino 1-3 and Flora Peyvandi 1-4 1 A.Bianchi Bonomi Hemophilia and Thrombosis Center, Fondazione IRCCS Ca Granda - Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico; 2 Department of Clinical Sciences and Community Health and 3 Laboratory of Clinical Chemistry and Microbiology, 4 Department of Pathophysiology and Transplantation, University of Milan, Italy METHODS Laboratory tests Venous blood samples were taken at the time of the first visit for thrombophilia testing and collected into vacutainer tubes containing trisodium citrate 109 mm at the 9:1 proportion (blood: anticoagulant). Platelet-poor plasma (PPP) was obtained by centrifugation at 1800g for 15 minutes at room temperature, frozen in liquid nitrogen and stored at -80 C until used. LA testing was performed on fresh plasma obtained by centrifuging blood samples at 3000g for 15 minutes. The supernatant plasma was re-centrifuged (same conditions) to minimize residual platelets and the samples were analysed within the day of collection. Thrombophilia screening included: DNA analysis (performed on citrated whole blood) for the 1691 guanine to adenine substitution in coagulation factor V gene (factor V Leiden) 1 and for the 20210 guanine to adenine substitution in the 3 -untranslated region of the prothrombin gene; 2 functional and/or antigenic assays for plasma fibrinogen, antithrombin, protein C and protein S; 3 apl were evaluated as recommended by the Subcommittee on Lupus Anticoagulant/Phospholipid/Dependent Antibodies of the ISTH. 4 LA was detected using two screening tests: silica clotting time (SCT, Werfen, Orangeburg, NY) and diluted Russel viper venom test (drvvt, Werfen). Mixing tests (patient/normal) and confirmatory tests at increasing phospholipid concentrations carried out whenever the screening test was prolonged beyond the local cut-off values (1.35 ratio for SCT and 1.23 ratio for drvvt). Patients were considered positive for LA whenever SCT and/or drvvt gave positive results for screening, mixing and confirm; 5 in patients on VKA therapy mixing studies should correct the prolonged screening studies if they are only due to the anticoagulant effect; the drvvt with confirmatory testing has been demonstrated to reliably detect LA in patients on warfarin therapy. 6,7 For acl >40 GPL or MPL and for a 2-GPI >10 U/mL, corresponding to the 99 th percentile, were determined on serum samples by Elisa (Phadia Gmbh, Thermo Fisher Scientific, Uppsala, Sweden) on Phadia 250 analyzer (Thermo Fisher Scientific), following the ISTH recommendation. 4 Patients were considered as having positive results 1
whenever one of the two tests (acl or aβ2-gpi) gave results higher than the local cut-off values. The presence of apl was confirmed in a second blood sample three months apart from the first detection, as recommended by international guidelines. 5 Protein C and protein S were not tested in patients on VKA at the time of blood sampling. Patients on rivaroxaban were tested only for antithrombin and protein S free antigens because of the known influence of the drug on the functional tests; functional protein C was evaluated using a chromogenic assay in order to overcome these interferences. Statistical analysis Mean and standard deviation or median and inter-quartile range were used to describe continuous variables. Count and percentage were used for demographic and clinical variables. The incidence rates (IR) of recurrent thrombosis were calculated with their 95% confidence intervals (CI) according to Poisson distribution and expressed as events per 100 patients-year (pts-yr). In case of patients shifted from VKA to DOAC or vice versa, their exposure period was concurrently partitioned to each of the two anticoagulants. Kaplan-Meier curves were used to plot the cumulative incidence of recurrent thrombosis during the followup period. The cumulative incidence of recurrent thrombosis was calculated from life table with its 95% CI with Hosmer-Lemeshow-May method for the periods of VKA intake and according to Poisson distribution for the periods of DOAC intake. Hazard ratio (HR) and its 95% CI was calculated by a Cox proportional hazard regression model as a risk estimate of recurrent thrombosis in patients with aps treated with DOAC relative to those treated with VKA (reference category). All analyses were performed with the statistical software SPSS (release 23.0, IBM SPSS Statistics for Windows, IBM Corp., Armonk, NY, USA). References 2
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