Introduction:

antiphospholipid syndrome is a rare, autoimmune, thrombophilic disease, still little known to all health professionals, which implies delay in diagnosis and timely treatment. Objective: to expose the factors of social impact of the antiphospholipid syndrome due to its incidence in the quality of life of the patients.

Methods:

the review of the bibliography was carried out through the Google Scholar search engine with the descriptors: antiphospholipid syndrome, morbidity and mortality, damage, social impact, quality of life, in the SciELO, Medline-Pubmed, and Hinari databases.

Results:

the review focuses on four subtopics: Occurrence of antiphospholipid syndrome in thrombotic and obstetric morbidity and mortality, Recurrence of thrombotic events and accumulated chronic damage, Impairment of quality of life in patients with antiphospholipid syndrome, and Importance of Educational work on the social impact of antiphospholipid syndrome. Changes in lifestyles to correct the risk factors that these patients must face, add restrictions to their daily life and the fear of recurrences and death, cause additional psychological alterations that motivate specialized care.

Conclusions:

it is necessary to design large-scale health strategies for the comprehensive and multidisciplinary care of patients with antiphospholipid syndrome, which include training health professionals and applying educational actions that involve families.

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