The Course of Active Tuberculosis Complicated by Pregnancy

Flanagan, Paul; Hensler, Nestor M.

doi:10.1001/jama.1959.03010070023006

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“…From the time of Hippocrates until the middle of the nineteenth century, it was believed that pregnancy had an overall beneficial effect on tuberculosis (28). A diametrically opposite view was taken from 1850 until the 194Os, and therapeutic abortion was frequently recommended to avert the presumed deleterious effect of pregnancy (118). An intermediate view was taken in 1953 by Hedvall (119); after studying a large number of patients, he reached the conclusion that pregnancy and labor seldom have a harmful effect on women with tuberculosis.…”

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