“Pregnancy in adult-onset idiopathic inflammatory myopathy”: Report from a cohort of myositis patients from a single center

Pregnancy does not seem to carry a worse prognosis for the mother nor for the fetus in patients with IIM; on the contrary, nearly half of the patients in our series improved clinically when they became pregnant, a relapse of IIM symptoms being common afterwards. Pregnancy does not appear to be a trigger for IIM.