title: Impact of pregnancy on respiratory capacity in women with muscular dystrophy and kyphoscoliosis. A case report.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Restriction of the chest wall in pregnancy prevents adaptive physiologic hyperventilation. This in turn might gradually promote respiratory insufficiency.
  
  
  METHODS
  Two consecutive pregnancies occurred in a woman with severe kyphoscoliosis due to juvenile muscular dystrophy. The patient died postpartum.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Pregnancies with restrictive lung diseases, including severe scoliosis and kyphoscoliosis, should be considered high risk and thus should be monitored and managed carefully.
authors.affiliation: Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Lis Maternity Hospital, Tel-Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, 6 Weizman Street, Tel Aviv 64239, Israel. ronn@post.tau.ac.il
authors.forename: Ronni
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Gamzu
authors.forename: Michael
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Shenhav
authors.forename: Ofer
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Fainaru
authors.forename: Benny
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Almog
authors.forename: Michael
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kupferminc
authors.forename: Joseph B
authors.initials: JB
authors.lastname: Lessing
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D017809:Fatal Outcome; D005260:Female; D005865:Gestational Age; D006801:Humans; D008176:Lung Volume Measurements; D009136:Muscular Dystrophies / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis; D011247:Pregnancy; D011248:Pregnancy Complications / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology*; D011256:Pregnancy Outcome; D018566:Pregnancy, High-Risk; D011659:Pulmonary Gas Exchange; D012131:Respiratory Insufficiency / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology*; D012600:Scoliosis / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis; D012720:Severity of Illness Index