Table 1.
Medication | Disease | Study design | Timing of exposure | Number of patients exposed |
Live births | Major birth defects |
Low birth weight |
Preterm births |
Stillbirths | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Omalizumab | Asthma | The Observational Study of the Use and Safety of Xolair (omalizumab) During Pregnancy (EXPECT) (Namazy, Blais et al. 2020) [8, 9] | 246 patients were exposed during first trimester | 230 | 233 (99.1%) (223 singletons and 10 twins) | (8.1%) | (13.7%) | (15%) | 2 (0.9%) |
2 | Asthma | Retrospective case study (Gemicioğlu, Yalçin et al. 2021) [12] | Variable | 20 | 23 (2 twins) | 0 | 3 | 5 | 0 | |
3 | Asthma | Case reports (Kupryś-Lipińska, Tworek et al. 2014) [13] | Throughout pregnancy | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
4 | Asthma | Case report (Hirashima, Hojo et al. 2012) [14] | First trimester | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | |
5 | Asthma | Case report (Kuschnir, Emerson et al. 2012) [15] | First trimester | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
6 | Asthma | Case report (Cortese, Di Lizia et al. 2013) [16] | First trimester | 1 | 1 | 0 | NA | 1 | 0 | |
7 | Asthma | Case report (Majou, Moreira et al. 2021) [17] | Throughout pregnancy | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
8 | CIU | Observational study (EXPECT) (Namazy, J., 2021) [18] | First trimester | 30 | 29 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 0 | |
9 | CIU | Case report (Cuervo-Pardo, Barcena-Blanch et al. 2016) [19] | Throughout pregnancy | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
10 | CIU | Case report (Liao, Yu et al. 2021) [20] | Variable | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
11 | CIU | Case report (Losappio, Mirone et al. 2020) [21] | Throughout pregnancy | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
12 | CIU | Case report (Ensina, Cusato-Ensina et al. 2017) [22] | Variable | 2 | 3 (2 twins) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
13 | CIU | Case report (Ghazanfar and Thomsen 2015) [23] | Throughout pregnancy | 1 | 2 (conceived twice) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
14 | CIU | Case report (Gonzalez-Medina, Curto-Barredo et al. 2017) [24] | Variable | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
15 | Mepolizumab | Asthma | Case report (Ozden and Pinar Deniz 2021) [28] | First trimester | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
16 | Severe eosinophilic granulomatosis with polyangiitis | Case report (Kasuya, Kitano et al. 2019) * | Exposed after delivery | 1 | N/A (Due to time of exposure) | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | |
17 | Benralizumab | Hypereosinop hilic syndrome with severe eosinophilic gastrointestin al involvement | Case report (Manetz, Marie et al. 2021) [32] | Throughout pregnancy | 1 | 1 | 0 (0 eosinophil count at birth to 7 months) | 0 | 0 | 0 |
18 | Asthma | Case report (Saco and Tabatabaian 2018) [33] ** | Third trimester | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | |
19 | Dupilumab | Atopic dermatitis | Case series (Bosma, Gerbens et al. 2021) [48] | 2 men at conception 2 women prior to conception | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
20 | Atopic dermatitis | Case report (Lobo, Lee et al. 2021) [40] | First and second trimester | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
21 | Atopic dermatitis | Case report (Kage, Simon et al. 2020, Kage, Simon et al. 2021) [41, 42] | Throughout pregnancy | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
22 | Atopic dermatitis | Case report (Mian, Dunlap et al. 2020) [43] | Third trimester | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
23 | Atopic dermatitis | Case report (Gracia-Darder, Pons De Ves et al. 2021) [44] | Throughout pregnancy | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
24 | Atopic dermatitis | Case report (Costley and Murphy 2021) [45] | Throughout pregnancy | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
25 | Atopic dermatitis | Case report (Akhtar, Khosravi-Hafshejani et al. 2022) [47] | Throughout pregnancy | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
26 | Pemphigoid gestationis | Case report (Riquelme-McLoughlin and Mascaró 2021) [46] | Third trimester | 1 | 1 | 0 | N/A | 1 | 0 | |
Total | 313 | 318 | 21 | 38 | 47 | 2 |
N/A = Not available/Not applicable
CIU = Chronic idiopathic urticaria
Mepolizumab was given after the delivery. Therefore, pregnancy outcomes could not be attributed to mepolizumab use.
Exposed to benralizumab during pregnancy. However, no further information on fetal outcomes was provided.