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Pregnant SLE Patients Discontinue Meds When They Shouldn't
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Pregnant SLE Patients Discontinue Meds When They Shouldn't (©SydaProductionsShutterStock.com) Gregory M. Weiss, M.D. August 7, 2019 Lupus, Modern Medicine News, News, Rheumatology Recent evidence shows that pregnant women with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) often discontinue their lupus medications during pregnancy despite recommendations to continue them. The findings, reported by Mary A. De Vera, M.D., of the University of British Columbia, appear in the July 16 online issue of Lupus. -
Pregnant SLE Patients Discontinue Meds When They Shouldn't
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Pregnant SLE Patients Discontinue Meds When They Shouldn't (©SydaProductionsShutterStock.com) Gregory M. Weiss, M.D. August 7, 2019 Lupus, Modern Medicine News, News, Rheumatology Recent evidence shows that pregnant women with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) often discontinue their lupus medications during pregnancy despite recommendations to continue them. The findings, reported by Mary A. De Vera, M.D., of the University of British Columbia, appear in the July 16 online issue of Lupus. -
Gene Changes Key to Successful Pregnancy in Lupus April 29, 2019 Pregnant women with lupus are more likely to suffer complications than those who don’t. Lupus Research Alliance Scientific Advisory Board members Dr. Virginia Pascual, Professor at Weill Cornell Medicine; and Dr. Jane Salmon, Collette Kean Research Professor at Hospital for Special Surgery, and their colleagues asked if testing the blood, of pregnant women with lupus, using advanced technologies could identify, early in pregnancy, lupus patients at high risk for complications. Their new paper in the Journal of Exp
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Lupus: 3 Things to Know Mark L. Fuerst Dec 3, 2018 Lupus Three new studies in systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) reveal that a gut bacterium may be linked to autoimmune diseases, including SLE; pregnancy complications in women with lupus have decreased over the past 2 decades; and physical or emotional abuse
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Women with Lupus Overwhelmingly Have Healthy Pregnancies
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Women with Lupus Overwhelmingly Have Healthy Pregnancies News | June 30, 2017 | Lupus By Whitney L. Jackson In contradiction to long-standing beliefs, a healthy pregnancy is possible for women who have lupus, says Jill Buyon, M.D., a rheumatologist and lupus specialist from New York University School of M -
Medication Use Among Pregnant Women With Systemic Lupus Erythematosus and General Population Comparators Kristin Palmsten; Julia F. Simard; Christina D. Chambers; Elizabeth V. Arkema Rheumatology. 2017;56(4):561-569. Abstract and Introduction Abstract Objective. The aim was to characterize SLE medication trends before, during and after pregnancy and to compare other commonly used medications during SLE pregnancies with non-SLE pregnancies. Methods. Women with pregnancies ending in live birth or stillbirth were identified from the Swedish M
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Pregnancy Complications in Lupus: Can Blood Transcriptomics Predict? What mechanisms make pregnancies for women with systemic lupus erythematosus different than pregnancies in healthy women? Researchers from the Baylor Research Institute find that the neutrophil signature is a potential early biomarker of preeclampsia in women with systemic lupus erythematosus. The research, led by Seunghee Hong of Baylor, was presented on Nov. 13 at the American College of Rheumatology annual meeting held in Wa
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VIDEO: Develop plan for pregnancy in patients with lupus http://www.healio.com/rheumatology/lupus/news/online/{3b2cf651-e3c1-4231-9b7e-1fab7d5e57e3}/video-develop-plan-for-pregnancy-in-patients-with-lupus?utm_source=maestro&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=rheumatology news CLEVELAND — At the Rheumatology Nurses Annual Conference, Monica Richey, MSN, ANP-BC/GNP, an adult rheumatology nurse practitioner at Hospital for Special Surgery, spoke about how rheumatologists and rheumatology nurses can best prepare patients with lupus for pregnancy.
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Lupus anticoagulant, disease activity and low complement in the first trimester are predictive of pregnancy loss 1Division of Rheumatology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, USA 2Division of Rheumatology and Immunology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA 3Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Maryland, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
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Pregnant women with aPL antibodies may benefit from hydroxychloroquine Sciascia S, et al. Am J Ob Gyn.2015;doi:10.1016/J.ajog.2015.09.078. October 15, 2015Women with antiphospholipid syndrome or positive antiphospholipid antibodies who became pregnant while receiving hydroxychloroquine for at least 6 months were more likely to have positive pregnancy outcomes compared with patients who did not receive hydroxychloroquine, according to analysis of recently published data. An observational, retrospective, single-center study of 170 pregnancies in 96 women with antiphospholipid antibodies (aPL) w
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Pregnancy, SLE, and APS: New Guidelines Pregnancy can pose unique complications for women with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) and antiphospholipid syndrome (APS), including preeclampsia and preterm birth. New guidelines issued at the 2015 annual meeting of the European League Against Rheumatism (EULAR) outline ways to reduce those risks in the context of disease activity and the impact of medications. At the same time, a large population study from Sweden presented at the EULAR meeting offers some reassurance that, for women who’ve previously had children, pregnancy does not cause an accel
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Pregnancy Outcomes Favorable in SLE Patients The majority of pregnant patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) have favorable pregnancy outcomes, with few experiencing severe flares, according to the results of the largest prospective study to date investigating pregnancy in women with SLE.“In patients with inactive disease or stable mild or moderate activity, pregnancy is safer for mother and child than it was previously believed to be, with good outcomes in 81% of patients,” write the researchers, led by Jill P. Buyon, MD, chair of the division of rheumatology at New York University/
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SLE and Pregnancy and Prognosis? Buyon JP, Kim MY, Guerra MM, et al. Original Research: Predictors of Pregnancy Outcomes in Patients With Lupus: A Cohort Study. Ann Intern Med. Published online 23 June 2015 doi:10.7326/M14-2235 Hahn BH. Editorial: Pregnancy in Women With Systemic Lupus Erythematosus: Messages for the Clinician. Ann Intern Med. Published online 23 June 2015 doi:10.7326/M15-1301 The good news: Among pregnant women with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), 81% had a good outcome. The bad news: Among Hispanic white and African-American women, only 74% had a good outcome. (“Good out
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HCQ may improve pregnancy outcomes for women with antiphospholipid syndrome July 2, 2015Treatment with hydroxychloroquine may reduce pregnancy risks and increase gestational duration in women with antiphospholipid syndrome, according to data presented at the European League Against Rheumatism Annual European Congress of Rheumatology. Researchers conducted an observational study of 170 pregnancies in 96 women with antiphospholipid syndrome (aPL). Of the patients, 31 women treated with hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) for at least 6 months prior to conception underwent 65 pregnancies. In 65 women, 119 p
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Certain biomarkers may predict pregnancy complications in women with SLE Kim MY, et al. Am J Obstet Gynecol. 2015;doi:10.1016/j.ajog.2015.09.066. September 30, 2015Women with systemic lupus erythematosus and certain serum biomarkers during pregnancy may be more likely to have adverse pregnancy outcomes, according to recently published research. Researchers studied 492 pregnant women with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) or antiphospholipid syndrome (APS) enrolled at 12 weeks gestation in a prospective, multicenter study between September 2003 and August 2013 in the U.S. and Canada. The stud
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Certain biomarkers may predict pregnancy complications in women with SLE Kim MY, et al. Am J Obstet Gynecol. 2015;doi:10.1016/j.ajog.2015.09.066. September 30, 2015Women with systemic lupus erythematosus and certain serum biomarkers during pregnancy may be more likely to have adverse pregnancy outcomes, according to recently published research. Researchers studied 492 pregnant women with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) or antiphospholipid syndrome (APS) enrolled at 12 weeks gestation in a prospective, multicenter study between September 2003 and August 2013 in the U.S. and Canada. The stud
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Pregnancy, SLE, and APS: New Guidelines Pregnancy can pose unique complications for women with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) and antiphospholipid syndrome (APS), including preeclampsia and preterm birth. New guidelines issued at the 2015 annual meeting of the European League Against Rheumatism (EULAR) outline ways to reduce those risks in the context of disease activity and the impact of medications. At the same time, a large population study from Sweden presented at the EULAR meeting offers some reassurance that, for women who’ve previously had children, pregnancy does not cau
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Women With Autoimmune Rheumatic Diseases: Considerations Before, During, and After Pregnancy Listen and learn from experts in SLE: slides and information. This presentation is meant for doctors, but gives very good information and advice from experts. http://www.peervoice.com/women-autoimmune-rheumatic-diseases-considerations-during-and-after-pregnancy?person_id=2029011#featured-presentations Presentation 1 The Impact of Pregnancy on Autoimmune Rheumatic Diseases Marta Mosca, MD, PhD Rheumatology Unit University of Pisa Pisa, Italy Presentation 2 Discuss
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This is to announce a separate forum for Lupus and pregnancy. We start off with an excellent presentation given by experts in this area.
