title: Pregnancy outcomes in dermatomyositis and polymyositis patients.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Currently, there are few studies that describe pregnancy in dermatomyositis/polymyositis patients, and they are largely limited to case reports or studies with few samples.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  Therefore, we describe the pregnancy in a large sample of patients with dermatomyositis/polymyositis and to analyze the outcomes in those who became pregnant during or after disease onset.
  
  
  METHODS
  The present single-center study analyzed 98 female patients with idiopathic inflammatory myopathies (60 dermatomyositis and 38 polymyositis patients). They were interviewed to obtain obstetric antecedent and demographic data from June 2011 to June 2012.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Seventy-eight (79.6%) of the 98 patients had obstetric histories. Six polymyositis and 9 dermatomyositis patients became pregnant after disease onset. The pregnancy outcomes in these cases were good, except in the following cases: 1 disease reactivation, 1 intrauterine growth retardation, 1 diabetes mellitus, 1 hypertension, 1 hypothyroidism, and 2 fetal losses (same patient). Moreover, 2 patients developed dermatomyositis during pregnancy and 4 (2 polymyositis and 2 dermatomyositis) during the postpartum period with good control after glucocorticoid and immunosuppressant therapy.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The adverse obstetric events were related to clinical intercurrences and the pregnancy does not seem to carry a worse prognosis specifically in disease (for example: disease relapsing). Moreover, dermatomyositis or polymyositis onset during pregnancy or the postpartum period had good outcome after drug therapy.
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Reumatologia, Hospital das Clínicas da Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, SP, Brasil.
authors.forename: Larissa Sayuri
authors.initials: LS
authors.lastname: Missumi
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Reumatologia, Hospital das Clínicas da Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, SP, Brasil.
authors.forename: Fernando Henrique Carlos de
authors.initials: FH
authors.lastname: Souza
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Reumatologia, Hospital das Clínicas da Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, SP, Brasil.
authors.forename: Joelma Queiroz
authors.initials: JQ
authors.lastname: Andrade
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Reumatologia, Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, SP, Brasil. Electronic address: samuel.shinjo@gmail.com.
authors.forename: Samuel Katsuyuki
authors.initials: SK
authors.lastname: Shinjo
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D015331:Cohort Studies; D003882:Dermatomyositis / Q000150:complications*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D017285:Polymyositis / Q000150:complications*; D011247:Pregnancy; D011248:Pregnancy Complications; D011256:Pregnancy Outcome; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D055815:Young Adult
keywords: Dermatomiosite; Dermatomyositis; Gestação; Inflammatory myopathies; Intercorrências obstétricas; Miopatias inflamatórias; Obstetric intercurrences; Polimiosite; Polymyositis; Pregnancy