Pregnancy and Inflammatory Bowel Disease

This review covers important questions that arise for physicians caring for women with inflammatory bowel disease. Fertility, pregnancy outcomes and the safety of medications in pregnancy and lactation are discussed.

Keywords: Crohn disease, Ulcerative colitis, Inflammatory bowel disease, Pregnancy, Infliximab

Center for Colitis and Crohn's Disease, University of California, San Francisco, 2330 Post Street 610, San Francisco, CA 94115, USA

This article originally appeared in Gastroenterology Clinics of North America, Volume 38, Issue 4.

PII: S0025-7125(09)00119-9

doi:10.1016/j.mcna.2009.08.018

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