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Delay pregnancy until scleroderma stabilizes. (Diffuse Disease).

Publication: OB GYN News

Publication Date: 01-FEB-03

Author: Evans, Jeff
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COPYRIGHT 2003 International Medical News Group

NEW ORLEANS -- Women with diffuse scleroderma, including those with a previous renal crisis, should delay pregnancy until their disease has stabilized, Dr. Virginia Steen said at the Third International Conference on Sex Hormones, Pregnancy, and the Rheumatic Diseases.

Before 1985, doctors told most women with scleroderma not to get pregnant, because pregnancy outcomes were poor for both them and their babies. Now women with milder or stable disease can have good pregnancy outcomes without high rates of miscarriages and preterm births, said Dr. Steen, professor of medicine at Georgetown University, Washington, D.C.

Dr. Steen noted a prospective trial at...

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