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PP144. Profile of lupus pregnancy in internal medecine practice

T Haddad et al. Pregnancy Hypertens. 2012 Jul.

Abstract

Introduction: The pregnancies in systemic erythematous lupus (SLE) disease is a situation of high risk and involve both the mother and the fetus. The prematurity and the miscarriage are there more frequent, with increase risks of eclampsia, acute hypertension, HELP syndrome and of worsening renal disease. So the morbimortality is multiplied particularly when a anti-phospholipid syndrome 'APLS' is associated. The pregnancy remains however authorized when the SLE is in remission for more than 6 months with a validated treatment and successful means of monitoring.

Objectives: To review the clinical profile of the pregnancies at the SLE patients with or without APLS in Internal Medicine Practice.

Methods: it's a retrospective study, in an internal medical centre over a period going from January, 2008 till December, 2011. The collection of the data is made from the index cards of clinical observations collecting items to interpret the data. All the patients are diagnosed referring to the criteria ACR (SLE/APLS) and all benefit from a follow-up in a obstetrics monitoring (ultrasounds to monitor growth and placental development).

Results: On a cohort of 80 SLE young patients hospitalized we brought together 20 patients answering eligibility criteria. The average age is of 26 years (21-41), SLE evolve with an average of 2.5years, the parity is estimated at 5 on average by patient. The pregnancies are programmed in only in 25% . The others cases of pregnancy remain the consequence of a not adapted contraception (50%). Lupus patients have history of renal damage (8) requiring immunosuppressive therapy (4) but renal function is preserved at all the patient's. The treatment is adapted to the clinical context and prophylactic doses of heparin and a baby aspirin are required in most situations. The cardiovascular and metabolic risk factors show an overweight (12), one dyslipemia (10), type 2 diabetes (2), and hypertension (3). The pregnancy is at the origin of a degradation of the renal function (4) with definitive chronic renal Insufficiency (1). The specific events observed are a HELLP syndrome (1), pre-eclampsia (2), fetal losses (5), ischemic strokes (4) and post-partum cardiomyopathy (1). The pregnancies require caesarians (15) with ligature of trunks (2). We deplore fetal deaths (7) in tripled (1) and in twin (1) during the period of follow-up. We note a small birth weight (7), a preterm birth (5), a foetal distress (5) at the origin of a psychomotor disorders (1) and we observed a case of a transient skin lupus (1).

Conclusion: The frequency of the maternal and fetal complications is partially understandable by the fact that the majority of the pregnancies neither are programmed, nor authorized by the treating physician. Indeed, between the denial of the disease and the desire of pregnancy in everything taken, the patients often take the risk and put the treating physician in front of pregnancies in top risks.

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