What is your advice? Bringing a child into the world is a significant event. However, both rheumatic diseases and the medications used to treat them can pose risks to mother and baby alike.

Discontinuing prophylactic trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole (TMP-SMX) while patients with autoimmune or inflammatory disease (AIID) were receiving > 12.5 mg/d of prednisone-equivalent glucocorticoids ...

Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) commonly causes joint pain, swelling, and inflammation. However, some people with RA will develop skin rashes. These can occur due to hives, vasculitis, and many other ...

Rheumatic heart disease is one of those conditions. Rheumatic heart disease is a condition in which rheumatic fever has permanently damaged the heart valves, causing symptoms of shortness of ...