Lupus and Pregnancy

While healthy pregnancies with SLE are now far more common than in the past, lupus still poses some risks and a healthy, successful pregnancy requires careful planning.  This video provides a comprehensive overview of the most common concerns regarding how lupus and lupus medications can affect overall reproductive health and pregnancy, as well as how pregnancy can affect a patient’s lupus.

Our goal with this video is to provide direct, yet compassionate advice and information on issues of fertility, the risks for miscarriages, pre-term delivery and pre-eclampsia, as well as concerns surrounding contraception and in vitro fertilization.  We truly believe this is a critically important video.  Please, share it with anyone you know who might be able to use this information!

Presenter: Neda Amiri, BSc, MD, MHSC, FRCPC, a clinical rheumatologist, Clinical Associate Professor of Rheumatology, and Director of Pregnancy and Rheumatic Diseases Clinic (PReDicT) at Mary Pack Arthritis Centre, Vancouver, British Columbia.

We thank our Community Sponsors for making this video possible: 7-Minute Cinemas, Blue-eyed Crow Studio, Tin Rocket, Left Coast Lupus and Deux North Studios!