Antiphospholipid syndrome – causes, symptoms, diagnosis, treatment, pathology

What is antiphospholipid syndrome? In antiphospholipid syndrome, individuals produce antiphospholipid antibodies, which attack the phospholipids in the cell membrane of their own cells, or attack proteins that are bound to those phospholipids. So antiphospholipid syndrome, or APS, is an autoimmune disease.

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