title: An ever-challenging relationship: lupus and pregnancy.
abstract: Systemic lupus erythematous (SLE) is a chronic inflammatory disease with an unknown etiology and an autoimmune pathogenesis, and its clinical manifestations can involve multiple organs through polymorphic biological changes. Nowadays, pregnancy is possible for most patients with SLE, and good outcomes can be expected for both mother and child. This became possible as a consequence of increasingly better monitoring and treatment of pregnant women with SLE. The following article outlines the problems associated with fertility, course of pregnancy, and breastfeeding in women with SLE.
authors.affiliation: University of Medicine and Pharmacy "Carol Davila", Bucharest, Romania.
authors.forename: Andra
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Bălănescu
authors.affiliation: University of Medicine and Pharmacy "Carol Davila", Bucharest, Romania.
authors.forename: Teodora
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Donisan
authors.affiliation: University of Medicine and Pharmacy "Carol Davila", Bucharest, Romania.
authors.forename: Dinu
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Bălănescu
keywords: pregnancy; systemic lupus erythematosus