Inflammatory bowel diseases in pregnancy

Abstract

Objective: To bring actual summary of pre and perinatal care of women with Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis.

Design: Review.

Setting: Department of Gynaecology and Obstetrics, General Faculty Hospital and 1st Faculty of Medicine, Prague.

Methods: Review of articles.

Conclusion: Care of women with inflammatory bowel diseases should be placed in a specialised centre and management of pregnancy should be discussed by a multidisciplinary team included obstetrician, gastroenterologist, surgeon and nutritional specialist. All the possibilities in treatment of these women (except a few of them) are safe during the pregnancy and in the puerperium both for mother and fetus.

Keywords: Crohn; IBD; biological therapy; inflammatory bowel disease; pregnancy.