title: [The effect of pregnancy on the course of ankylosing spondylitis].
abstract: Twenty-five of our patients were married women (71.4 percent), 23 had given birth once or twice and 20 of our patients gave birth after the onset of the disease. The average age at the time of the analysis was 34 years. The course of the disease showed exacerbation once or twice in the course of pregnancy in most of our patients. Improvement of their condition was seen in 11 patients with a duration of approximately 5.4 months on the average and in individual cases even for a duration of 7 or 8 months. Remission during the puerperium period lasted somewhat over 4 months in only 2 of our patients. Pregnancy and the puerperium had no significant effect on the course of the disease.
authors.affiliation: Klinika za fizikalnu medicinu, rehabilitaciju i reumatologiju KB Sestre milosrdnice i Poliklinika za medicinsku dijagnostiku, jedinica za fizikalnu medicinu i rehabilitaciju, Zagreb.
authors.forename: Z
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Jajić
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Jajić
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Bilić
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D011247:Pregnancy; D011248:Pregnancy Complications; D013167:Spondylitis, Ankylosing
vernacular_title: Utjecaj trudnoće na tijek ankilozantnog spondilitisa.