Affiliation:
1. Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, Prince of Songkla University, Songkhla 90110, Thailand
2. Division of Neonatology, Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, Prince of Songkla University, Songkhla 90110, Thailand
Abstract
Abstract
Objectives
The purpose of the study was to determine the clinical features of NLE and to compare the neonatal outcomes between newborns born to pregnant women with SLE and healthy pregnant women.
Methods
We conducted a retrospective cohort analysis between 2007 and 2019 in a tertiary referral hospital in Thailand. A total of 118 pregnant women with SLE with 132 neonates compared with 264 randomly selected healthy pregnant women.
Results
The median (interquartile range) gestational age and birth weight of 132 neonates born to women with SLE were 37 (35–38) weeks and 2687 g (2045–3160 g), respectively. The clinical features of NLE infants were hemolytic anemia (8%), thrombocytopenia (2.7%) and hyperbilirubinemia (5.3%). There was no neonate with a congenital complete heart block or skin lesion. Moreover, logistic regression analysis found that neonates born to women with SLE increased the risk of preterm birth [odd ratio (OR) 8.87, 95% confidence interval (95% CI) 4.32–18.21, p < 0.001], low birth weight (OR 10.35, 95% CI 5.08–21.08, p < 0.001), birth asphyxia (OR 2.91, 95% CI 1.26–6.73, p = 0.011) and NICU admission (OR 4.26, 95% CI 2.44–7.42, p < 0.001). SLE disease activity and corticosteroid and azathioprine usage were associated with preterm delivery in pregnant women with SLE.
Conclusion
The major clinical features of NLE patients were hematologic and hepatobiliary abnormalities in our study. Pregnancies with SLE dramatically increased the risk of preterm delivery and neonatal complications.
Lay summary
Neonatal lupus erythematosus (NLE) is the consequence of the transplacental passage of autoantibodies to newborns during pregnancy. The clinical features of NLE infants in our study were hemolytic anemia (8%), thrombocytopenia (2.7%) and hyperbilirubinemia (5.3%). There was no neonate with a congenital complete heart block or skin lesion. We also compared the neonatal outcomes between 118 pregnant women with SLE and 264 randomly selected healthy pregnant women. Our study found that the neonates born to women with SLE increased the risk of preterm birth, low birth weight, birth asphyxia and NICU admission. Moreover, SLE disease activity and corticosteroid and azathioprine usage were associated with preterm delivery in pregnant women with SLE.
Publisher
Oxford University Press (OUP)
Subject
Infectious Diseases,Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health
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