Invited Speaker 45th Annual ARA NSW-ACT Branch Meeting 2023

Obstetric Medicine in patients with rheumatic disease (#28)

Amanda Beech 1
  1. Royal Hospital for Women, Randwick, NSW, Australia

Women with rheumatic diseases may well face unique challenges during pregnancy and are often at increased risk of complications including pre-eclampsia, fetal growth restriction and preterm delivery.  With careful management and anticipation of these complications, along with multidisciplinary team involvement, these pregnancies can be successful.  There have been a number of updates recently to the US, European and UK guidelines on therapies to manage rheumatic disease in pregnancy, and these will be addressed in this talk.