In this article we describe the results of clinical and laboratory examination of 78 patients with antiphospholipid syndrome (APS). Anamnestic data showed that 46 (60,0 %) patients had venous and arterial thrombosis and 42 (64,5 %) of women had pregnancy complications. Skin and hematological manifestations and their combination were the most common among present clinical manifestations of APS (during the time of the study). We compared clinical and laboratory data of the patients according to the revealed antiphospholipid antibodies (aPL) profile. We found that the frequency of present clinical manifestations of APS was higher in patients with two or more types of aPL (html5-dom-document-internal-entity2-967-endhtml5-dom-document-internal-entity2-8201-end 2 = 6,09; р = 0,014). Triple-positive patients appeared to have platelet count below the normal range (less than 150 html5-dom-document-internal-entity2-215-end 10 9 /l), skin and neurological manifestations of APS more often. We revealed that the probability of skin manifestations was 6-time higher in triple-positive patients in compare to mono-positive: OR = 5,91(1,48–23,56), html5-dom-document-internal-entity2-967-endhtml5-dom-document-internal-entity2-8201-end 2 = 6,92, р = 0,009. We speculate that triple-positivity among patient with APS can be a risk factor of thrombosis and as the result of this – appearance of clinical and laboratory manifestations of APS.
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