Pregnancy in multiple sclerosis women with relapses in the year before conception increases the risk of long-term disability worsening.
Emilio PortaccioLaura TudiscoLuisa PastòLorenzo RazzoliniMattia FondericoAngelo BellinviaAngelo GhezziPietro AnnovazziMauro ZaffaroniLucia MoiolaVittorio MartinelliClara Grazia ChisariFrancesco PattiGianluigi MancardiCarlo PozzilliLaura De GiglioRocco TotaroAlessandra LugaresiValeria Di TommasoDamiano PaolicelliEleonora CoccoMaria Giovanna MarrosuGiancarlo ComiMassimo FilippiMaria TrojanoMaria Pia Amatonull nullPublished in: Multiple sclerosis (Houndmills, Basingstoke, England) (2021)
Pregnancy in MS women with relapses in the year before conception increases the risk of long-term disability worsening. Our findings underscore the importance of counselling in MS women facing a pregnancy that should be planned after a period of clinical stability, favouring treatment optimization in patients with recent disease activity.
Keyphrases
- multiple sclerosis
- disease activity
- pregnancy outcomes
- preterm birth
- rheumatoid arthritis
- systemic lupus erythematosus
- rheumatoid arthritis patients
- mass spectrometry
- white matter
- ankylosing spondylitis
- ms ms
- pregnant women
- juvenile idiopathic arthritis
- metabolic syndrome
- insulin resistance
- combination therapy
- hepatitis c virus
- men who have sex with men
- hiv testing