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- Title
Recurrent congenital toxoplasmosis in a woman with lupus erythematosus.
- Authors
D'Ercole, Claude; Boubli, Léon; Franck, Jacqueline; Casta, Michel; Harle, Jean-Robert; Chagnon, Catherine; Cravello, Ludovic; Leclaire, Michèle; Blanc, Bernard
- Abstract
We describe the case of a patient with systemic lupus erythematosus, treated by corticosteroids, who presented during two successive pregnancies with serological reactivation of toxoplasmosis associated with fetal lesions. The first infected fetus died in utero with signs of hydrops. The second fetus was treated in utero with a combination of sulfadoxine and pyrimethamine, administered to the mother, and is now well. The increasing number of immunocompromised pregnant patients with immunity to Toxoplasma gondii may lead to a higher risk of reactivation of maternal toxoplasmosis and congenital infection.
- Publication
Prenatal Diagnosis, 1995, Vol 15, Issue 12, p1171
- ISSN
0197-3851
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/pd.1970151216