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Would you continue belimumab in high risk lupus patients with overlapping scleroderma features with ILD who become pregnant and who are already on HCQ and azathioprine?

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Rheumatology · Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USUHS)
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If "high risk" means at high risk of flare or increased disease activity, then "yes." I always have a shared decision-making conversation with the patient first. This almost always occurs well before conception/pregnancy, as I strongly believe in contraception and pregnancy conversations early in th...

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