A rare case of dermatomyositis revealed during pregnancy with good outcome

There are only few case reports in the literature documenting outcome of pregnancy in patients with DM in contrast with those of other connective tissue diseases especially when dermatomyositis is revealed during pregnancy, most of the publications reported a poor prognosis for both the mother and t...

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Autores principales: Awatef, Kelati, Salim, Gallouj, Zahra, Mernissi Fatima
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The African Field Epidemiology Network 2016
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4885693/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27279944
http://dx.doi.org/10.11604/pamj.2016.23.117.9198
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author Awatef, Kelati
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description There are only few case reports in the literature documenting outcome of pregnancy in patients with DM in contrast with those of other connective tissue diseases especially when dermatomyositis is revealed during pregnancy, most of the publications reported a poor prognosis for both the mother and the fetus, yet, in our case we confirmed the results of the rare recent cases that have tended to show a good outcome, after the treatment with glucocorticoid and immunosuppressant therapy.
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spelling pubmed-48856932016-06-08 A rare case of dermatomyositis revealed during pregnancy with good outcome Awatef, Kelati Salim, Gallouj Zahra, Mernissi Fatima Pan Afr Med J Case Report There are only few case reports in the literature documenting outcome of pregnancy in patients with DM in contrast with those of other connective tissue diseases especially when dermatomyositis is revealed during pregnancy, most of the publications reported a poor prognosis for both the mother and the fetus, yet, in our case we confirmed the results of the rare recent cases that have tended to show a good outcome, after the treatment with glucocorticoid and immunosuppressant therapy. The African Field Epidemiology Network 2016-03-24 /pmc/articles/PMC4885693/ /pubmed/27279944 http://dx.doi.org/10.11604/pamj.2016.23.117.9198 Text en © Kelati Awatef et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ The Pan African Medical Journal - ISSN 1937-8688. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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A rare case of dermatomyositis revealed during pregnancy with good outcome
title A rare case of dermatomyositis revealed during pregnancy with good outcome
title_full A rare case of dermatomyositis revealed during pregnancy with good outcome
title_fullStr A rare case of dermatomyositis revealed during pregnancy with good outcome
title_full_unstemmed A rare case of dermatomyositis revealed during pregnancy with good outcome
title_short A rare case of dermatomyositis revealed during pregnancy with good outcome
title_sort rare case of dermatomyositis revealed during pregnancy with good outcome
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4885693/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27279944
http://dx.doi.org/10.11604/pamj.2016.23.117.9198
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