title: Asthma in pregnancy: a review.
abstract: Asthma is one of the most common medical conditions in women of childbearing age. There are now data to show that asthma is not a benign condition with respect to maternal and fetal health. Despite this there are several problems encountered in the management of such women. There is a tendency to cease or reduce optimal asthma treatments because pregnant women and/or their clinicians may believe they pose a risk to the fetus. There is also a lack of clinician awareness of the complications of asthma in pregnancy.
authors.affiliation: Director Maternal Fetal Medicine, Maternal Fetal Medicine Unit, Division of Women's Children's and Family Health, Royal North Shore Hospital, Northern Clinical School, University of Sydney, St Leonards NSW 2065, Australia.
authors.forename: Warwick
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Giles
authors.affiliation: NHMRC Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, Centre for Asthma and Respiratory Diseases, University of Newcastle and Hunter Medical Research Institute, Newcastle, NSW 2310, Australia.
authors.forename: Vanessa
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Murphy
keywords: allergy; asthma; drugs (medication); high-risk pregnancy; maternal-fetal medicine; pregnancy