Practical Management of the Pregnant Patient with Rheumatic Disease

ISBN-13: 9780198845096 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 240 str.

Karen Schreiber; Eliza Chakravarty

Opis

A collection of 70 cases covering pregnancy counselling, the management of disease flares, thromboembolic disease, the management of patients with end organ disease, advice on medications, obstetric complications, infections and the management of rare diseases in women with rheumatic diseases before and during pregnancy as well as post-partum.

O autorze

Dr Karen Schreiber main clinical and research interests are antiphospholipid syndrome and connective tissue diseases in pregnant women. Dr Schreiber is involved in identifying alternative treatment to improve fetal and maternal pregnancy outcomes in pregnant women with antiphospholipid syndrome. Dr Schreiber is an active member of the British Society for Rheumatology (BSR) working groups publishing clinical guidelines with the overall aim to improve the treatment of patients with rheumatic diseases. Dr. Chakravarty is a rheumatologist and epidemiologist with a longstanding clinical and research interest in understanding the interrelationships between pregnancy and underlying rheumatic diseases. She works to identify and mitigate risk factors for adverse pregnancy outcomes and to optimize medical management of chronic rheumatic diseases during pregnancy and the postpartum period in order to maximize outcomes for both mother and infant. Dr. Østensen is a rheumatologist with a special interest in the interaction between pregnancy and the rheumatic diseases. Her research through many years has focussed on reproduction issues of women and men with rheumatic disease; immunology of pregnancy; antirheumatic drugs during pregnancy and breastfeeding. She has established specialized centers at Rheumatology departments in Norway and in Switzerland that counsel and manage patients who plan a family or are pregnant.