Pregnancy and the rheumatic diseases
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https://doi.org/10.24220/2318-0897v1a1992e1442Abstract
Rheumatic diseases occur frequently in women of childbearing ageI. Many of these disorders occur in women who are pregnant or desire to become so. Collectively, problems ofpregnancy are common and varied among these disorders. They may range from minor exacerbations of low back pain in women with HLA-B27 related spondyloarthropathy to life-thereatening, progressive glomerulonephütis in patients with either systemic lupus erythematosus (SLB) or systemic sclerosis (SSe) who have active renal involvement or patients with serious postpartum thromboembolic events associated with antiphospholipid syndromes.
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