You may learn that you have a complication making your pregnancy high-risk. In addition to trauma and cancer, the following are examples of diseases or conditions that require you see a maternal-fetal medicine specialist:
Autoimmune disease
- Antiphospholipid antibody syndrome
- Connective tissue disorders
- Immune deficiencies
- Lupus
- Myasthenia gravis
Cardiovascular (heart) disease
- Arrhythmia
- Cardiomyopathy
- Congenital or structural cardiac lesions
- Coronary artery disease
- Endocarditis
- Hypertension
- Myocardial infarction
- Peripheral vascular disease
Endocrine disease
- Addison’s disease
- Diabetes - Type 1 or 2, or gestational
- Parathyroid disease
- Pheochromocytoma
- Prolactinoma
- Thyroid dysfunction
Gastrointestinal (digestive system) disease
- Cholecystitis
- Cholestasis
- Hepatitis (acute or chronic)
- Inflammatory bowel disease
- Pancreatitis
- Severe hyperemesis
Hematologic (blood) disease
- Anemia
- Coagulopathies
- Disseminated intravascular coagulation
- Hemoglobinopathies (sickle cell, thalassemia or combinations)
- Immune thrombocytopenic purpura
- Leukemia
- von Willebrand’s disease
Infectious disease
- Acute fatty liver
- Acute varicella
- Cytomegalovirus
- HIV
- Parvovirus
- Toxoplasmosis
Kidney (renal) disease
- Chronic renal insufficiency
- Glomerulonephritis
- Nephrotic syndrome
- Renal failure
- Renal transplant
Neurologic (nervous system) disease
- Cerebral vascular malformations
- Diabetes insipidus
- Epilepsy
- Intracranial hemorrhage
- Multiple sclerosis
- Myotonic dystrophy
- Neurocysticercosis
- Peripheral neuropathy
- Pseudotumor cerebri
- Spinal cord injury
- Stroke
- Tumor
Respiratory (breathing) disease
- Asthma
- Cystic fibrosis
- Pulmonary hypertension
- Restrictive lung disease
- Tuberculosis
Thromboembolic (blood clotting) disease
- Deep vein thrombosis
- Pulmonary embolus
- Thrombophilia
