How Women With Lupus Can Increase Chance For Healthy Pregnancies
Sunday, October 26, 2008 - 08:21
in Health & Medicine
In the not so distant past, women with systemic lupus erythematosus, an autoimmune disease, were advised not to have children, and if they became pregnant, to have therapeutic abortions to prevent severe flares of their lupus. Research by rheumatologists at Hospital for Special Surgery in New York, in patients with lupus who have had successful pregnancies is yielding insights that support a reversal of that thinking.