Maternal autoimmune disease

What it means

A medical history of a fetus or child born to a mother with an autoimmune disease.

Maternal autoimmune diseases with potential adverse effects for the fetus include autoimmune forms of hyperthyroidism and hypothyroidism, myasthenia gravis, systemic lupus erythematodes, and autoimmune forms of thrombocytopenia.

Rare diseases that can present with this2

The range is how often this sign appears among people diagnosed with each disease — it is not a probability of having any of them. Many of these signs also occur in common, non-rare conditions, and Orphanet separately records 6 diseases where this sign is specifically absent. A sign on this page is a conversation to have with a clinician, not a conclusion.

Part of the broader category