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Ana Rita Cruz-Machado

Ana Rita Cruz-Machado is a rheumatology resident at Hospital de Santa Maria-Centro Hospitalar Lisboa Norte in Lisbon, Portugal. She has a special interest in the field of reproductive health in rheumatic diseases. She has actively collaborated in the the high-risk pregnancy clinic at her institution since 2017, and she also performed a 4-month clinical internship at the pregnancy clinic in the Rheumatology unit of Brescia Hospital, Italy.

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Pregnancy consultation (symbolic image with models)

14-05-2020 | Pregnancy | Case study | Article

My lupus patient wants to get pregnant: What next?

Ana Rita Cruz-Machado and Laura Andreoli present a case study of a female patient with systemic lupus erythematosus on treatment with teratogenic immunosuppressive drugs who wanted to have a child.