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. 2021 Dec 31;11(1):225. doi: 10.3390/jcm11010225

Table 1.

Characteristics and summary from studies included.

Study Study Design Year of Publication Population Number of Pregnancies Included in This Study Indication for Treatment Treatment; Doses Outcome Notes
1 Case
report
2009 1 1 AOSD Anakinra;
100 mg/day
Healthy term baby
2 Case
report
2011 2 2 AOSD Anakinra;
100 mg/day
Two healthy babies, one PTB 36 weeks
3 Retrospective cohort study 2013 51 1 SOJIA Anakinra; NA Term baby Big cohort of SOJIA patients but only one pregnant
4 Prospective
cohort study
2014 9 9 FCAS (6)
NOMID (1)
MWS/NOMID (1)
Anakinra; mostly 100 mg/day but also 239–300 mg/day All term babies, three with FCAS, one with MWS and one twin pregnancy resulted in one death at 30 weeks
5 Prospective
cohort study
2015 4 0 FMF Anakinra;
100 mg/day
All healthy babies, one PTB 36 weeks Data in another study already
included
6 Prospective
cohort study
2015 6 3 FMF Anakinra;
100 mg/day or NA
All healthy babies, one PTB 36 weeks Data in another study already
included
7 Prospective
cohort study
2015 79 1 Chronic
inflammatory rheumatic disease
Anakinra; NA Voluntary pregnancy termination Big cohort of
biological drug
during pregnancy, only one took
anakinra
8 Case
report
2017 1 1 FMF Anakinra;
100 mg/day
Healthy term baby
9 Prospective
cohort study
2018 5 5 AOSD (3)
SOJIA (2)
Anakinra;
100 mg/day
All healthy term
babies but one with right hydrocele, heart murmur and resolved low birthweight
10 Retrospective cohort study 2018 4 4 FMF Anakinra;
100 mg/day–2 days
All healthy babies but one PTB at 33 weeks with hypotrophic, respiratory distress syndrome,
hyperbilirubinemia and poor drinking
11 Prospective
cohort study
2019 13 12 FMF Anakinra;
100 mg/day or NA
One miscarriage, two PTB, one stillbirth but overall healthy babies Two pregnancies still ongoing, no
obstetrical
information and two pregnancies with data in another study already
included
12 Case
report
2019 1 1 FMF Anakinra;
100 mg/day
Term healthy baby Cohort of four
patients with FMF, only one pregnant
13 Prospective
cohort study
2019 54 1 FMF Anakinra;
100 mg/day
Obstetrical and
neonatal information NA
Cohort of patient with FMF, only one pregnant
14 Case
report
2019 1 1 HLH Anakinra;
200 mg/twice daily
Healthy but had anaemia and marrow suppression
15 Retrospective cohort study 2020 16 3 AOSD Anakinra; NA All healthy babies but one had PTB at 28 weeks Cohort of child
exposed to DMARDs, only 3
exposed to anakinra during pregnancy
16 Case
report
2020 1 1 HLH Anakinra; NA PTB at 31 weeks and IUGR but overall healthy
17 Case
report
2017 1 1 MWS Canakinumab; 150 mg/
4–8 weeks
Healthy term baby
18 Case
report
2018 1 1 SOJIA Canakinumab; NA Healthy term baby
19 Retrospective cohort study 2020 23 1 FMF Canakinumab; 150 mg/
6–8 weeks
One healthy term pregnancy and one without information Cohort of patient with FMF, only 2 pregnant
20 Retrospective cohort study 2013 7 7 AOSD (1)
CAPS (3)
TRAPS (1)
FMF (1)
Idiopathic pericarditis (1)
Anakinra; NA (6), Canakinumab;
NA (1)
All healthy babies, one PTB 36 weeks and one with unilateral reduced hearing at 6 weeks Two pregnancies still ongoing, no
obstetrical
information
21 Case
report
2015 1 1 MWS Canakinumab; NA and Anakinra; NA Healthy but with CAPS
22 Retrospective cohort study 2017 43 31 AOSD (4)
CAPS (16)
Cogan syndrome (2)
FMF (5)
Idiopathic pericarditis (1)
TRAPS (2)
Un-SAID (1)
Anakinra; mostly
100 mg/day but also 50–300 mg/day
Canakinumab; 150 mg/
4–8 weeks
Two miscarriage (same women), two PTB, all healthy
babies but one with left renal agenesis and ectopic
neurohypophysis with hormone
deficiency
43 pregnancies
exposed to IL-1
inhibitor but 11 were male exposure

HLH: hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis, FMF: familial mediterranean fever, AOSD: adult-onset Still’s disease, FCAS: familial cold autoinflammatory Syndrome, NOMID: neonatal-onset multisystem inflammatory disease, MWS: Muckle-Wells syndrome, sJIA: systemic juvenile idiopathic arthritis, CAPS: cryopyrin-associated autoinflammatory syndromes, NA: not available.