Pregnancy Outcomes in Patients with Primary Sjogren's Syndrome Undergoing Assisted Reproductive Therapy: A Multi-center Retrospective Study.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

The aim of this work was to investigate the pregnancy outcomes in infertile patients with primary Sjögren's syndrome (pSS) undergoing assisted reproductive therapy (ART).

Methods

A multi-center retrospective study was performed in pregnant women with pSS and ART from five tertiary hospitals from Guangdong Province from 2013 to 2022. Natural planned pregnancy in pSS and healthy people undergoing ART were selected as controls. Pregnancy outcomes were collected from medical records and compared among groups.

Results

Twenty-four pregnancies in pSS with ART, 70 natural planned pregnancies in pSS, and 96 pregnancies in healthy people with ART were analyzed. More than half of the pSS mothers undergoing ART have a past history of adverse pregnancy and spontaneous

SUBMITTER: Lao M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10654308 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature