The studies and discussions presented in the second edition of the Hughes
Syndrome text had their beginning with a 1983 British Medical Journal
publication entitled “Thrombosis, abortion, cerebral disease and the lupus
anticoagulant.” In the mid-20th-century, it was recognized that some
patients with systemic lupus...
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