Pregnancy and Birth Outcomes among Women with Idiopathic Thrombocytopenic Purpura

Table 2

Pregnancy outcomes among women with ITP and cITP.

Outcomes	All pregnancies among women with ITP		ITP prior to pregnancy		ITP during pregnancy
		%		%		%
	446	100	89	100	357	100
Live birth	346	77.6	56	62.9	290	81.2
Spontaneous or elective termination or stillbirth	24	5.4	10	11.2	14	3.9
Outcome unknown	76	17.0	23	25.8	53	14.9
Premature delivery^1	38	8.5	10	11.2	28	7.8
Low birthweight^1	6	1.4	1	1.1	5	1.4
Outcomes	All pregnancies among women with cITP		cITP prior to pregnancy		cITP during pregnancy
		%		%		%
	84	100	18	100	66	100
Live birth	57	67.9	11	61.1	46	69.7
Spontaneous or elective termination or stillbirth	11	13.1	2	10.2	9	13.6
Outcome unknown	16	19.0	5	27.8	11	16.7
Premature delivery^1	8	9.5	2	11.1	6	9.1
Low birthweight^1	1	1.2	1	5.6	0	0.0

Premature delivery defined as delivery at less than 37 weeks of gestational age; low birthweight defined as birthweight less than 2500.