@article{25987,
  keywords = {Pregnancy Complications, leprosy, Brazil},
  author = {Nogueira P S and Moura E R and Dias AA and Americo C F and Aguiar L R and Valente M M},
  title = {Characteristics of pregnant and lactating women with leprosy},
  abstract = {<p>INTRODUCTION:<br />
The clinical characteristics of women who conceive during leprosy and the association between leprosy and pregnancy are not well known.<br />
METHODS:<br />
This cross-sectional study included 49 pregnant or lactating women diagnosed with leprosy in 2011.<br />
RESULTS:<br />
The patients had a clinical dimorphous form of leprosy (44.9%), no physical incapacity at diagnosis (87.5%), and no complications in either the patient or infant (33.4%). In 36.3% of cases, leprosy symptoms were presented in the last trimester of pregnancy, and in 31.9% of patients were in the first trimester of lactation.<br />
CONCLUSIONS:<br />
The association between leprosy and pregnancy should be routinely investigated, particularly in endemic areas.</p>
},
  year = {2015},
  journal = {Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical},
  volume = {48},
  pages = {96 - 98},
  issn = {0037-8682},
  url = {http://www.scielo.br/pdf/rsbmt/v48n1/0037-8682-rsbmt-48-01-00096.pdf},
  doi = {10.1590/0037-8682-0148-2014},
  language = {eng},
}