Specialists from different medical specialties need to gain familiarity with reproductive health issues in women with chronic rheumatic diseases of childbearing age. Health care providers ...
MoreSpecialists from different medical specialties need to gain familiarity with reproductive health issues in women with chronic rheumatic diseases of childbearing age. Health care providers must have easy access to summary recommendations for management of pregnancy, antenatal care, and care in the postpartum period. This book is intended as a quick-access guide of the most up-to-date understanding of the interplay between pregnancy and rheumatic diseases and principles of management before, during, and after pregnancy assisting in decision-making regarding treatment of women with autoimmune diseases. The book intends to provide concise, clinically relevant topics and cases with management recommendations for all providers who may encounter women of child-bearing age including rheumatologists, gynaecologists, paediatricians, primary care providers, nurses, midwives, and other health professionals dealing with pre-conceptional and pregnant women with rheumatic diseases. Aided by the discussion of 70 patient cases, pregnancy counselling, the management of disease flares, thromboembolic disease, the management of patients with end organ disease, advice on medications, obstetric complications, infections, vaccination, and the management of rare diseases in women with rheumatic diseases before and during pregnancy and postpartum is presented. The information is brought to the clinician in a distilled and clinically relevant manner that can be easily applied to the varying situations that may occur in the clinical setting, with references to more detailed background and primary studies for those who desire a more in depth review of the material.
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