1. History of multiple sclerosis in 2 successive pregnancies
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Géraldine Androdias, Romain Casey, Stéphanie Roggerone, Eleonora Cocco, Marta Simone, Emilio Portaccio, Angelo Ghezzi, Françoise Durand-Dubief, Pietro Annovazzi, Sandra Vukusic, Maria Giovanna Marrosu, Amandine Benoit, Romain Marignier, Christian Confavreux, L. Gignoux, Iuliana Ionescu, Maria-Pia Amato, and Maria Trojano
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Adult ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Multiple Sclerosis ,Exacerbation ,Gravidity ,Logistic regression ,Disability Evaluation ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,Pregnancy ,Recurrence ,Risk Factors ,medicine ,Humans ,Prospective Studies ,030212 general & internal medicine ,Prospective cohort study ,business.industry ,Obstetrics ,Multiple sclerosis ,Postpartum Period ,Odds ratio ,medicine.disease ,Pregnancy Complications ,Logistic Models ,Italy ,Cohort ,Disease Progression ,Female ,France ,Neurology (clinical) ,business ,030217 neurology & neurosurgery ,Postpartum period - Abstract
Objective: To evaluate the risk of relapses during pregnancy and in the first 3 months after delivery in 2 successive pregnancies in a cohort of French and Italian women with multiple sclerosis (MS). Methods: A total of 93 women were included if they had had 2 pregnancies followed prospectively after MS onset between January 1993 and 2013. The association of a relapse during pregnancy or the first postpartum trimester in pregnancy 1 and pregnancy 2 was evaluated by univariate logistic regression. Results: A majority of women did not experience any exacerbation in the 3 months after delivery (31.2% and 23.7%, respectively, relapsed after pregnancy 1 and 2; p = 0.32). A total of 7.6% had a relapse after both pregnancies. The risk of relapse after pregnancy 2 was not associated with the number of relapses in the prepregnancy year (odds ratio [OR] 1.52 [0.57–4.05]) or during pregnancy (OR 1.57 [0.52–4.79]) or with the occurrence of a relapse after pregnancy 1 (OR 0.86 [0.29–2.50]). Conclusions: Our work provides original data on the evolution of successive pregnancies in MS, showing a similar (and even lower) disease activity in the second pregnancy. There was no correlation of activity in successive pregnancies. Therefore, counseling of women with MS who consider having a second baby should be the same as for the first one.
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- 2016
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