How would you apprach a SLE patient who is planning pregnancy on hydroxychloroquine with a high titer dsDNA who cannot tolerate azathioprine and whose only symptom is arthralgia?
Would you consider adding anything else? Or monitor through pregnancy?
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Rheumatology · UT Southwestern Medical Center
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In an SLE patient planning pregnancy whose only clinical manifestation is arthralgia, hydroxychloroquine monotherapy is appropriate. During the pregnant and non-pregnant state, additional immunosuppression is not indicated for a high titer dsDNA; rather, monitoring for organ manifestations is approp...
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