Background. The new therapies have enforced another approach regarding the success of a pregnancy in rheumatoid arthritis, in a sense of a decrease in the number of complications which may interfere with the fetal or maternal outcome. Aims. The study aim is to evaluate fertility among female patients with rheumatoid arthritis, in Romania, having as secondary objectives to appraise the pregnancy outcome, in parallel with monitoring the activity of the disease, the relation with the postpartum flare, as well as following up on the evolution status of the foetuses. Material and method. We have analysed a number of 38 female patients diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis that have had at least one post-diagnosis obstetrical episode, for 23 of the patients we have done it retrospectively, and for 15 patients, prospectively. The study is multicentric and has been carried out between October 2012 and July 2015. The patient evaluation criteria include: the activity of the disease and the treatment management in the pre-conceptual stage; monitoring of the disease every trimester and adequate therapeutic intervention; postpartum reactivation of the rheumatoid arthritis in connection with the
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