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- Title
Practical Evidence-Based Recommendations for Patients with Multiple Sclerosis Who Want to Have Children.
- Authors
Fragoso, Yara Dadalti; Adoni, Tarso; Brooks, Joseph B. Bidin; Finkelsztejn, Alessandro; da Gama, Paulo Diniz; Grzesiuk, Anderson K.; Marques, Vanessa Daccach; Parolin, Monica Fiuza K.; Sato, Henry K.; Varela, Daniel Lima; Vasconcelos, Claudia Cristina F.
- Abstract
Multiple sclerosis (MS) management presently aims to reach a state of no (or minimal) evidence of disease activity. The development and commercialization of new drugs has led to a renewed interest in family planning, since patients with MS may face a future with reduced (or no) disease-related neurological disability. The advice of neurologists is often sought by patients who want to have children and need to know more about disease control at conception and during pregnancy and the puerperium. When MS is well controlled, the simple withdrawal of drugs for patients who intend to conceive is not an option. On the other hand, not all treatments presently recommended for MS are considered safe during conception, pregnancy and/or breastfeeding. The objective of the present study was to summarize the practical and evidence-based recommendations for family planning when our patients (women and men) have MS.Funding TEVA Pharmaceutical Brazil.
- Subjects
BRAZIL; MULTIPLE sclerosis; DRUGS; FAMILY planning; PUERPERIUM
- Publication
Neurology & Therapy, 2018, Vol 7, Issue 2, p207
- ISSN
2193-8253
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s40120-018-0110-3