Neonatal lupus erythematosus – practical guidelines
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Julia Marta Derdulska
,
Lidia Rudnicka
,
Agata Szykut-Badaczewska
,
Dorota Mehrholz
,
Roman J. Nowicki
,
Wioletta Barańska-Rybak
and
Aleksandra Wilkowska
Abstract
Background
Neonatal lupus erythematosus is an autoimmune disease acquired during fetal life as a result of transplacental passage of maternal anti-Sjögren’s-syndrome-related antigen A (anti-SSA/Ro), anti-Sjögren’s-syndrome-related antigen B (anti-SSB/La) or anti-U1 ribonucleoprotein (anti-U1-RNP) antinuclear autoantibodies.
Contents
Clinical manifestations include skin lesions, congenital heart block, hepatobiliary involvement and cytopenias. Most of the disorders disappear spontaneously after clearance of maternal antibodies. Cardiac symptoms, however, are not self-resolving and often pacemaker implantation is required. Diagnosis is based on clinical presentation and the presence of typical antibodies in the mother’s or infant’s serum.
Outlook
Neonatal lupus erythematosus may develop in children born to anti-SSA/Ro or anti-SSB/La women with various systemic connective tissue diseases. However, in half of the cases, the mother is asymptomatic, which may delay the diagnosis and have negative impact on the child’s prognosis. Testing for antinuclear antibodies should be considered in every pregnant woman since early treatment with hydroxychloroquine or intravenous immunoglobulin (IVIG) has proven to be effective in preventing congenital heart block.
Research funding: None declared.
Author contributions: All authors have accepted responsibility for the entire content of this manuscript and approved its submission.
Competing interests: Authors state no conflict of interest.
Ethical approval: Not applicable.
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Articles in the same Issue
- Frontmatter
- Review
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- Original Articles – Obstetrics
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- Short Communication
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- Letter to the Editor
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Articles in the same Issue
- Frontmatter
- Review
- Neonatal lupus erythematosus – practical guidelines
- Original Articles – Obstetrics
- Optimal timing to screen for asymptomatic bacteriuria during pregnancy: first vs. second trimester
- Amniotic fluid embolism – implementation of international diagnosis criteria and subsequent pregnancy recurrence risk
- COL1A1, COL4A3, TIMP2 and TGFB1 polymorphisms in cervical insufficiency
- Pregnancy and neonatal outcomes of twin pregnancies – the role of maternal age
- Comparison of maternal third trimester hemodynamics between singleton pregnancy and twin pregnancy
- Daily monitoring of vaginal interleukin 6 as a predictor of intraamniotic inflammation after preterm premature rupture of membranes – a new method of sampling studied in a prospective multicenter trial
- Association between the number of pulls and adverse neonatal/maternal outcomes in vacuum-assisted delivery
- Original Articles – Fetus
- The effect of nuchal umbilical cord on fetal cardiac and cerebral circulation-cross-sectional study
- Recognition of facial expression of fetuses by artificial intelligence (AI)
- Correlation of first-trimester thymus size with chromosomal anomalies
- Fetal intracranial structures: differences in size according to sex
- Original Articles – Neonates
- Antenatal care and perinatal outcomes of asylum seeking women and their infants
- Maturation of the cardiac autonomic regulation system, as function of gestational age in a cohort of low risk preterm infants born between 28 and 32 weeks of gestation
- Short Communication
- The impact of transfers from neonatal intensive care to paediatric intensive care
- Letter to the Editor
- Differential microRNA expression in placentas of small-for-gestational age neonates with and without exposure to poor maternal gestational weight gain
