title: Scleroderma.
abstract: This article reviews the literature on scleroderma and pregnancy, highlighting its sparsity, confused state, and retrospective nature. It emphasizes the need for more informed prospective work. This is required for clinical management and to help understand the complex interaction between scleroderma and pregnancy. This relationship is poorly defined and research is needed to investigate hormonal status, femaleness, and the disease.
authors.affiliation: Department of Rheumatology, West Middlesex University Hospital, Isleworth, United Kingdom.
authors.forename: C M
authors.initials: CM
authors.lastname: Black
authors.forename: W M
authors.initials: WM
authors.lastname: Stevens
mesh_terms: D003376:Counseling; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007674:Kidney Diseases / Q000209:etiology; D011247:Pregnancy; D011248:Pregnancy Complications / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000209:etiology; D012307:Risk Factors; D012595:Scleroderma, Systemic / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000209:etiology