Brief report: miscarriages in female rheumatoid arthritis patients: associations with serologic findings, disease activity, and antirheumatic drug treatment

J Brouwer, JSE Laven, JMW Hazes… - Arthritis & …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Objective To study the association between miscarriage in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) patients
and serologic findings, disease activity, and antirheumatic drug treatment, and to study …

Immunology of pregnancy and reproductive health in autoimmune rheumatic diseases. Update from the 11th International Conference on Reproduction, Pregnancy …

L Andreoli, CB Chighizola, L Iaccarino, A Botta… - Autoimmunity …, 2023 - Elsevier
Autoimmune rheumatic diseases (ARD) can affect women and men during fertile age,
therefore reproductive health is a priority issue in rheumatology. Many topics need to be …

Immunogenetic contributions to recurrent pregnancy loss

F Grimstad, S Krieg - Journal of assisted reproduction and genetics, 2016 - Springer
While sporadic pregnancy loss is common, occurring in 15% of pregnancies, recurrent
pregnancy loss (RPL) impacts approximately 5% of couples. Though multiple causes are …

Does APS impact women's fertility?

CB Chighizola, MG Raimondo, PL Meroni - Current rheumatology reports, 2017 - Springer
Abstract Purpose of Review This review focuses on the relationship between anti-
phospholipid antibodies (aPL) and female infertility by addressing three key questions:(i) …

Intravenous immunoglobulin use in patients with unexplained recurrent pregnancy loss

S Banjar, E Kadour, R Khoudja… - American Journal of …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Problem Recurrent pregnancy loss (RPL) affects up to 4% of couples attempting to conceive.
RPL is unexplained in over 50% of cases and no effective treatments exist. Due to the …

Antinuclear antibody testing—misunderstood or misbegotten?

DS Pisetsky - Nature Reviews Rheumatology, 2017 - nature.com
Antinuclear antibodies (ANAs) are a diverse group of autoantibodies that recognize nuclear
macromolecules and their complexes. ANAs represent key biomarkers in the evaluation of …

Autoimmunity and pregnancy loss

DW Branch, K Ward - Seminars in Reproductive Endocrinology, 1989 - thieme-connect.com
Autoimmunity affects women more commonly than men. It usually first appears in the
reproductive years and thus may complicate pregnancy. In a few clinical autoimmune …

[HTML][HTML] Anti-phosphatidylserine/prothrombin antibodies in healthy women with unexplained recurrent pregnancy loss

DE Pleguezuelo, O Cabrera-Marante, M Abad… - Journal of Clinical …, 2021 - mdpi.com
Recurrent pregnancy loss (RPL) affects up to 6% of couples. Although chromosomal
aberrations of the embryos are considered the leading cause, 50% of cases remain …

Mediation of adverse pregnancy outcomes in autoimmune conditions by pregnancy complications: a mediation analysis of autoimmune conditions and adverse …

G Bandoli, N Singh, J Strouse, RJ Baer… - Arthritis Care & …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Objective Autoimmune conditions are associated with an increased risk of adverse
pregnancy complications and outcomes, suggesting that pregnancy complications may …

Comparing pregnancy outcomes in patients with criteria and non-criteria autoimmune disease: a systematic review

C Muñoz Muñoz, K Ahmed, M Thomas, H Cohen… - Lupus, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
Background Not all patients fulfil criteria for specific autoimmune rheumatic diseases (ARDs)
and are then defined as having non-criteria (nc) ARD. It is uncertain whether well …