Decrease in pregnancy loss rates of SLE gestations in the time period 2000–2005

Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, School of Medicine, University of Zagreb, Petrova 13, 10000 Zagreb, phone ++3851/ 460 46 46 Objective: Compared to healthy women, women with systemic lupus erithematodes (SLE) still seem to have worse pregnancy outcome. Our aim was to find out whether unfractionated heparin therapy, if indicated, better prepregnancy disease control and improvement in surveillance during gestation, introduced in everyday practice after the year 1999, led to improved pregnancy outcome in women suffering SLE. Population and Methods: The outcome of pregnancy in women suffering systemic lupus…