Immunosuppressive drugs and fertility

Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Leroy, Clara ^a   Rigot, Jean Marc ^a   Leroy, Maryse ^a   Decanter, Christine ^a   Le Mapihan, Kristell ^a   Parent, Anne Sophie ^a   Le Guillou, Anne Claire ^a   Yakoub Agha, Ibrahim ^a   Dharancy, Sébastien ^a   Noel, Christian ^a   Vantyghem, Marie Christine ^a  

^a LILLE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

Anti TNF; Auto immune diseases; Azathioprine; Beta interferon; Chloroquine; Corticosteroids; Cyclophosphamide; Dimethylfumarate; Fertility; Fingolimod; Glatiramer; Immunosuppressive drugs: calcineurin inhibitor; Inflammatory diseases; Leflunomide; Mesalazine; Methotrexate; Mitoxantrone; mTOR inhibitors; Mycophenolate; Natalizumab; Pregnancy; Transplantation

Indexed keywords

ABATACEPT; ADALIMUMAB; AZATHIOPRINE; BETA INTERFERON; CERTOLIZUMAB PEGOL; CHLOROQUINE; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; ETANERCEPT; FINGOLIMOD; GLATIRAMER; GLUCOCORTICOID; GOLIMUMAB; GONADOTROPIN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT; INFLIXIMAB; LEFLUNOMIDE; MESALAZINE; METHOTREXATE; MITOXANTRONE; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID; NATALIZUMAB; RAPAMYCIN; RECOMBINANT INTERLEUKIN 1 RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; RITUXIMAB; SALAZOSULFAPYRIDINE; TACROLIMUS; TERIFLUNOMIDE; TESTOSTERONE; TOCILIZUMAB; UNINDEXED DRUG; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY;

AMENORRHEA; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; CONGENITAL BLINDNESS; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; CONTRACEPTION; DIABETES MELLITUS; DRUG CONTRAINDICATION; DRUG INDICATION; FEMALE INFERTILITY; FERTILITY; HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; HYPERKALEMIA; HYPERTENSION; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; KIDNEY FAILURE; LEUKEMIA; LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; MALE INFERTILITY; MENSTRUATION DISORDER; MULTILOCULAR SCLEROSIS; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; NONHUMAN; OVARY CYST; PERCEPTION DEAFNESS; PREECLAMPSIA; PREGNANCY DIABETES MELLITUS; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREMATURITY; PRESCRIPTION; PROSTATE CANCER; REVIEW; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SIDE EFFECT; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPONDYLARTHRITIS; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION; TERATOGENICITY; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; TREATMENT WITHDRAWAL; ANIMAL; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES; CHEMICALLY INDUCED; DRUG EFFECTS; FEMALE; PHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; FEMALE; FERTILITY; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS;

EID: 84944455476     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17501172     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s13023-015-0332-8     Document Type: Review

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