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Curr Health Sci J, vol. 38, no. 2, 2012

Considerations Regarding the Therapeutic Conduct in Pregnancy Associated Diabetes Mellitus

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GHEORMAN LAVINIA MARIA(1), GHEROMAN V. (2)


(1)Department of Metabolic, Nutrition Diseases and Diabetes, University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Craiova;
(2)Department of Obstetrics and-Gynecology, University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Craiova;


Abstract:

The consequences of diabetes mellitus on maternal body are evolutive and complex ones. At pregnant women with diabetes mellitus beside hyperglycemia, which is the specific anomaly, there are another risk factors both specific pregnancy factors as general pathologycal factors. This report considers the main classes of medicines used in the treatment of diabetes mellitus associated to pregnancy ( preexisting diabetes or gestational diabetes) . We discuss both about the main oral hypoglycemic agents with their advantages or their risks in the treatment of diabetes mellitus in pregnancy as about insulin therapy  which is the main choice in the treatment of diabetes mellitus in pregnancy. This paper tries to order the treatment of diabetes mellitus according to the particularities of this disease in pregnancy. This report tries an accord between therapeutic points of view of specialists in Diabetes Mellitus and specialists in Obstetrics


Keywords: diabetes mellitus, oral hypoglycemic agents, gestational diabetes,insulin therapy



Corresponding: Gheorman Lavinia Maria, MD, PhD student, Department of Metabolic, Nutrition Diseases and Diabetes, University of Medicine and Pharmacy of, Craiova ; mail: valeriu_gheorman@yahoo.com


DOI 10.12865/CHSJ.38.02.10 - Download PDF
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