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Autoimmune Diseases and Pregnancy – Is There a Greater Risk of Giving Birth to a Sick Child?

Archivum Immunologiae et Therapiae Experimentalis

Volume 73 (2025): Issue 1 (January 2025)

By: Magdalena Pszczołowska , Kamil Walczak, Weronika Kołodziejczyk, Magdalena Mroziak, Gracjan Kozłowski and Jerzy Leszek

Open Access

|Jun 2025

Abstract

This study aims to describe the impact of some of the most common autoimmune diseases, such as multiple sclerosis (MS) and neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorders (NMOSD), myasthenia gravis (MG), chronic inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), type 1 diabetes (T1D), autoimmune thyroid disease, rheumatoid arthritis (RA), systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), psoriasis, vasculitis, and antiphospholipid syndrome (APS), on pregnancy in women. This review investigates the risk to the offspring of the women; that is, whether the mother’s disease may affect fertility or disturb fetal development.

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Published on: Jun 14, 2025

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Keywords:

Autoimmune disease,

Pregnant woman,

Multiple sclerosis,

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Basic medical science,

Clinical medicine,

Clinical medicine, other,

Clinical chemistry

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