Background: Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a disease that can cause joint destruction and multiple arthritis. We retrospectively investigated bone and joint destruction during the perinatal period in adult patients with RA and juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA) in our hospitals in the last decade.
Methods: The study included 15 women, with 20 pregnancies, 19 childbirths, and one fetal death recorded between 2009 and 2018. We analyzed patient characteristics, disease activity, the modified total Sharp score (mTSS), and ΔmTSS from prepregnancy to delivery and from delivery to one year after delivery in the biologics (BIO) group (biologics used before pregnancy) and non-BIO group (not using biologics).
Results: There were five preterm births and seven low-birth-weight infants. The Clinical Disease Activity Index (CDAI) before pregnancy and postdelivery worsened from 12±1.8 to 19.9±2.7 (<0.05). The mTSS at prepregnancy and postdelivery was 47.7±12.2 and 57.3±11.1 in the BIO group, respectively, and 58.9±11.9 and 75.0±13.1 in the non-BIO group, respectively. In addition, the ΔmTSS value from prepregnancy to delivery and from delivery to one year after delivery was 14.5±4.8 and 9.2±1.7 in the BIO group, respectively (<0.05), and 16.1±5.2 and 8.3±4.0 in the non-BIO group, respectively.
Conclusion: The disease activity worsened, and bone and joint destruction progressed in both the BIO and non-BIO groups during the perinatal period in adult patients with RA and JIA in the last decade.
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