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Pregnancy in inflammatory bowel disease: Effect of sulfasalazine and corticosteroids on fetal outcome

Michael Mogadam, +3 more
- 01 Jan 1981 - 
- Vol. 80, Iss: 1, pp 72-76
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Inflammatory bowel disease, except for severe active Crohn's disease, does not seem to affect the outcome of concurrent pregnancy adversely, and the use of corticosteroid and sulfasalazine in pregnancy associated with ulcerative colitis is unlikely to increase the fetal morbidity or mortality.
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This article is published in Gastroenterology.The article was published on 1981-01-01 and is currently open access. It has received 259 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Inflammatory bowel disease & Ulcerative colitis.

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Birth defects after maternal exposure to corticosteroids: prospective cohort study and meta-analysis of epidemiological studies

TL;DR: Although prednisone does not represent a major teratogenic risk in humans at therapeutic doses, it does increase by an order of 3.4-fold the risk of oral cleft, which is consistent with the existing animal studies.
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Outcome of Pregnancy in Women Receiving Infliximab for the Treatment of Crohn's Disease and Rheumatoid Arthritis

TL;DR: It is suggested that infliximab exposure during pregnancy results in outcomes that do not differ from those in the U.S. population of pregnant women or pregnant women with CD not exposed to inflIXimab.
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European evidence based consensus on the diagnosis and management of Crohn's disease: special situations.

TL;DR: The third section of the European Crohn's and Colitis Organisation (ECCO) Consensus on the management of Crohn disease concerns postoperative recurrence, fistulating disease, paediatrics, pregnancy, psychosomatics, extraintestinal manifestations, and alternative therapy.
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National Cooperative Crohn's Disease Study: results of drug treatment.

TL;DR: Patients' drug therapy immediately before entry to the study significantly affected subsequent response, and none of the drugs was superior to placebo in prophylaxis against flare-up or recurrence.
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An experiment to determine the active therapeutic moiety of sulphasalazine

TL;DR: It is concluded that the active therapeutic moiety of S.A.S.P. is a function of the parent molecule or of these two principal metabolites of sulphapyridine and 5-aminosalicylic acid.
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Prenatal Exposure to Prednisone in Humans and Animals Retards Intrauterine Growth

TL;DR: Prednisone treatment for infertility and subsequent pregnancy maintenance in humans resulted in a significant decrease in the birth weight of full-term infants and a marked increase in the percentage of newborn infants weighing 2500 grams or less, that is, "light for dates" in comparison to control offspring.
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A controlled therapeutic trial of long-term maintenance treatment of ulcerative colitis with sulphasalazine (Salazopyrin)

A. S. Dissanayake, +1 more
- 01 Dec 1973 - 
TL;DR: It is concluded that maintenance treatment of ulcerative colitis with sulphasalazine should be continued indefinitely unless contraindicated by side effects.
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