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Myasthenia gravis and pregnancy
G J Daskalakis1, I S Papageorgiou, N D Petrogiannis
1First Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University of Athens, Alexandra Maternity Hospital, 80 Vas. Sofias Avenue, Athens, Greece.
Three pregnancies in two women with myasthenia gravis (MG), are presented. The first woman expressed no antenatal complications and delivered a full-term 3350 g baby by caesarean section, because of a previous caesarean. The second woman had two preterm births in subsequent pregnancies, which were complicated by hydramnios. Her first pregnancy ended in neonatal death of a 860 g female with multiple congenital anomalies. In her second pregnancy there was an exacerbation of MG and the baby, an 880 g male died soon after birth, due to respiratory failure.
Three pregnancies in two women with myasthenia gravis (MG), are presented. The first woman expressed no antenatal complications and delivered a full-term 3350 g baby by caesarean section, because of a previous caesarean. The second woman had two preterm births in subsequent pregnancies, which were complicated by hydramnios. Her first pregnancy ended in neonatal death of a 860 g female with multiple congenital anomalies. In her second pregnancy there was an exacerbation of MG and the baby, an 880 g male died soon after birth, due to respiratory failure.