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  • Title: Diabetes in pregnancy: rationale and guidelines for care.
    Author: Kappy MS.
    Journal: Compr Ther; 1991 Jul; 17(7):50-6. PubMed ID: 1742970.
    Abstract:
    The management of pregnancy in a woman with diabetes is directed toward insuring a normal outcome for the mother and her newborn baby. There is ample evidence from studies in both humans and animals that maintenance of a normal maternal metabolic environment, particularly blood glucose concentrations, can avoid or ameliorate the complications of pregnancy responsible for increased morbidity and mortality in the mother and her baby. It is essential that this metabolic normalcy be achieved preconceptionally if congenital malformations, the leading cause of death in IDMs, are to be avoided. Thus, preconceptional care, intensive regulation of maternal glucose metabolism and fetal surveillance throughout pregnancy are critical. The use of the multidisciplinary team to optimize care has led to significant reductions in maternal and perinatal morbidity/mortality in IDMs, and is thus essential to successful outcomes in pregnancies complicated by diabetes.
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