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. 2021 Apr 3;10(7):1487. doi: 10.3390/jcm10071487

Table 1.

Rheumatic diseases and hereditary thrombophilia evolution during pregnancy.

Pathology Evolution in Pregnancy ANOs and Complications
SLE Worsens Miscarriage, foetal death, prematurity, IUGR, neonatal lupus, CHB, preeclampsia, and C-section.
RA Improves in pregnancy, worsens in postpartum Prematurity, IUGR, C-section, neonatal lupus, and CHB
SpA Improves in pregnancy, worsens in postpartum Prematurity, IUGR, and C-section
APS Irrelevant, depends on aPL Miscarriage, foetal death, prematurity, IUGR, preeclampsia, and C-section
SS Irrelevant Prematurity, IUGR, C-section, neonatal lupus, and CHB
UCTD According to clinical status Miscarriage, foetal death, prematurity, IUGR, neonatal lupus, CHB, preeclampsia, and C-section
HT Irrelevant, depends on mutation Miscarriage, foetal death, prematurity, IUGR, preeclampsia and C-section

Adverse neonatal outcomes (ANOs), rheumatic diseases (RD), hereditary thrombophilia (HT), systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), intrauterine growth retarded (IUGR), Caesarean section (C-section), neonatal lupus, congenital heart block (CHB), rheumatoid arthritis (RA), spondyloarthritis (SpA), antiphospholipid syndrome (APS), antiphospholipid (aPL) antibodies, Sjögren syndrome (SS), undifferentiated connective tissue disease (UCTD). Taken from 6, 18.