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Use of Tumor Necrosis Factor-alpha Inhibitors During Pregnancy Among Women Who Delivered Liveborn Infants

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    The purpose of this manuscript was to describe the use of tumor necrosis factor-alpha inhibitors (TNFis) among pregnancies ending in a live birth and with a diagnosis of ankylosing spondylitis (AS), Crohn's disease (CD), juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA), psoriasis (PsO), psoriatic arthritis (PsA), rheumatoid arthritis (RA), or ulcerative colitis (UC). The authors found that there was a preference for etanercept among pregnancies with AS/JIA/PsA/PsO/RA, despite the availability of other TNFis. Decline in TNFi use after the first trimester may be related to the desire to reduce TNFis transplacental transfer and to minimize infection risk to the fetus or baby associated with live vaccine immunizations after birth.

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    Efe Eworuke, Genna Panucci, Margie Goulding, Rosemarie Neuner, Sengwee Toh

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    Efe Eworuke, Division of Epidemiology II, Office of Pharmacovigilance and Epidemiology, Office of Surveillance and Epidemiology, Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, Food and Drug Administration, Silver Spring, MD, USA. Email: efe.eworuke@fda.hhs.gov