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Treatment of asthma during pregnancy: more solid evidence needed
1 Unit of Respiratory Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Rome "Tor Vergata", Rome, Italy
2 Unit of Pharmacology, Department of Experimental Medicine, Second University of Naples, Naples, Italy
Correspondence to:
Professor M Cazzola, Cattedra di Malattie Respiratorie, Dipartimento di Medicina Interna, Università di Roma "Tor Vergata", Via Montpellier 1, 00133 Roma, Italy; mario.cazzola@uniroma2.it
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In this issue of Thorax, a paper by Tata and colleagues1 assesses the association between maternal asthma and gestational exposure and asthma medications with the risk of congenital malformation in offspring using The Health Improvement Network primary care database (see page 981). Their findings showed that gestational exposure to commonly used asthma medications seems to be safe, although a moderate teratogenic risk of cromones cannot be excluded. This is important information for many doctors, mainly pulmonologists and allergologists involved in the treatment of asthma in pregnant women. It indicates that we can approach the pregnant patient with asthma in the traditional manner, without major concerns and using all the available treatment options with the exclusion of cromones which, in any case, currently represent an unusual therapeutic choice.
The results of this study enable us to reassure our pregnant patients. We have all found that one of the
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