Lupus and pregnancy: consensus and controversies.
Eighty-five percent of pregnancies are successful in women with systemic lupus erythematosus. However, pregnancy remains high-risk for the woman with lupus and for the fetus (because of an increased rate of fetal loss and preterm birth).
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Division of Molecular and Clinical Rheumatology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland.