Effective Treatment of Acute Severe Ulcerative Colitis in Pregnancy Is Associated With Good Maternal and Fetal Outcomes

Jacob E Ollech; Irit Avni-Biron; Laura Glick; Haider Haider; Sushila R Dalal; Dejan Micic; Joel Pekow; Henit Yanai; Russel D Cohen; Iris Dotan; David T Rubin; Atsushi Sakuraba

doi:10.1016/j.cgh.2020.10.035

Effective Treatment of Acute Severe Ulcerative Colitis in Pregnancy Is Associated With Good Maternal and Fetal Outcomes

Clin Gastroenterol Hepatol. 2021 Nov;19(11):2444-2446.e2. doi: 10.1016/j.cgh.2020.10.035. Epub 2020 Oct 22.

Authors

Affiliations

¹ Inflammatory Bowel Disease Center, University of Chicago Medicine, Chicago, Illinois; Inflammatory Bowel Disease Center, Rabin Medical Center, Petah Tikva, and Tel Aviv University, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv, Israel. Electronic address: kollech@gmail.com.
² Inflammatory Bowel Disease Center, Rabin Medical Center, Petah Tikva, and Tel Aviv University, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv, Israel.
³ Inflammatory Bowel Disease Center, University of Chicago Medicine, Chicago, Illinois.

PMID: 33223497
DOI: 10.1016/j.cgh.2020.10.035

Abstract

Data regarding the management and outcomes of acute severe ulcerative colitis (ASUC) in pregnant patients is sparse, consisting mainly of case reports.^1-3 We report on the largest cohort of pregnant patients hospitalized with ASUC and performed a systematic review of the medical literature.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Systematic Review

MeSH terms

Cohort Studies
Colectomy
Colitis, Ulcerative* / drug therapy
Colitis, Ulcerative* / surgery
Female
Humans
Pregnancy
Treatment Outcome