Internal Medicine

Reproductive Health

Questions discussed in this category

Do progesterone only oral contraceptive pills affect cortisol binding globulin?

1 Answer available

What is your approach to transitioning an SLE patient from a pregnancy incompatible regimen to pregnancy compatible regimen?

For example, when switching from MMF to azathioprine, do you overlap the treatments as you lower the dose of one and add the other?

3 Answers available

How do you manage patients with SLE undergoing assisted reproductive therapy with estrogenic effects?

2 Answers available

Do you stop TNF inhibitors during the third trimester of pregnancy?

2 Answers available

What is your approach to differentiating SLE flare in pregnancy vs pre-eclampsia?

1 Answer available

What is your first choice contraceptive agent for women with SLE?

How do you counsel these patients about hormonal agents?

1 Answer available

Does serologic activity (e.g., high titer dsDNA, low complements) without clinical disease activity in a pregnant lupus patient affect maternal or fetal outcomes?

2 Answers available

Papers discussed in this category

Current opinion in rheumatology, 2014-03

Systemic lupus erythematosus and pregnancy outcomes: an update and review of the literature.

Rheumatology (Oxford, England), 2013 Feb 04

Low risk of renal flares and negative outcomes in women with lupus nephritis conceiving after switching from mycophenolate mofetil to azathioprine.

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