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According to our estimates, overall positivity rates of criteria and non-criteria aPL tests are 6% and 3% among infertile women, 1% and 2% among controls, respectively.

The laboratory diagnosis of the antiphospholipid syndrome (APS) via antiphospholipid antibody (aPL) tests, including lupus anticoagulant (LAC), anti-cardiolipin (aCL), or anti-beta2 glycoprotein I (aβ2GPI) antibodies remains a challenge.

Furthermore, we determined if the patients were ever positive in all three aPL tests (aCL (IgM and IgG), anti-β2gGP-1 (IgG) and LA).

aPS/PTs have been proposed as a surrogate test for LA and as an additional serological marker of APS, to be performed with other aPL tests to improve diagnosis.

To this end, we retrospectively reviewed the files of all patients referred to our unit (2003 2010) for unexplained pregnancy morbidity, with an aPL test result.

In addition, the favorable specificity of aPL testing by LIA could also be confirmed in this study revealing no significant difference for all ten aPL tested by LIA compared with the four consensus criteria aPL by ELISA.

However, quantitative aPL testing did reveal significantly different levels of aCL IgG by LIA like did quantitative aPA, aPS, aPG, and aPT IgG analysis by this method.

However, aPL testing by ELISA still represents a challenge because of the difficulties in the inter- and intra-assay reproducibility [4, 5].

The agreement of aPL testing by LIA with consensus criteria aPL by ELISA was good (IgG aPL) to moderate (IgM aPL) and, thus, was in line with previously published comparative data [16, 21].

In a recent study comparing aPL testing by LIA with ELISA in APS patients, asymptomatic aPL-positive carriers, and infectious patients, the LIA demonstrated a better specificity, too [16].

This cutoff was determined by calculating the 99th percentile of 150 apparently healthy individuals as recommended by the international classification criteria for aPL testing and Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute (CLSI) guideline C28-A3 [25].