[Systemic lupus erythematosus and pregnancy: specific features of gestation and course of the disease].

The authors analyze the course and outcomes of 33 pregnancies in 26 women suffering from systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). In patients with active SLE the incidence of gestoses and abnormalities of the newborns is significantly higher than in those with inactive SLE, whose gestational and neonatal complication rate is almost the same as in healthy women. Pregnancy course and outcomes are particularly unfavorable in cases with lupus glomerulonephritis.