Pregnancy and delivery in a patient with mutilating dystrophic epidermolysis bullosa (Hallopeau-Siemens type)
Pregnancy and delivery in a patient with mutilating dystrophic epidermolysis bullosa (Hallopeau-Siemens type)
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DOI:
10.1016/s0029-7844(97)81421-4
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发表时间:
1997-05-01
影响因子:
7.2
通讯作者:
Dudenhausen, JW
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文献类型:
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作者:
Buscher, U;Wessel, J;Dudenhausen, JW
Background: Epidermolysis bullosa dystrophica of the mutilating Hallopeau-Siemens type is a rare inherited skin disease. Those afflicted have blisters and pronounced scarring of skin and mucous membranes after minor trauma. Pregnancies are very rare in affected women.Case: A 24-year-old woman, gravida 1, with a severe form of the Hallopeau-Siemens type was monitored closely during pregnancy. The patient spontaneously delivered a healthy female neonate at term. Episiotomy wound healing was uncomplicated. Seven months later, she returned in her second pregnancy, which was complicated by mild anemia and polyhydramnios from possible gestational-onset diabetes mellitus. Again, vaginal delivery of a healthy neonate was performed at term. We did not observe pregnancy-induced exacerbations of the skin disease.Conclusion: Women with epidermolysis bullosa dystrophica of the Hallopeau-Siemens type may decide to have children after careful evaluation of the degree of impairment and a thorough explanation of the risks associated with pregnancy and delivery. Close monitoring of the pregnant patient is important. Vaginal delivery should be the first choice. Breast-feeding is difficult, but not contraindicated. (C) 1997 by The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists.