[Pentasa (mesalazine) and pregnancy].

We analysed the outcome of 11 pregnancies in women treated for inflammatory bowel disease with mesalazine (Pentasa) during part of or throughout pregnancy. There were 9 healthy babies, one spontaneous abortion (the woman had an uterine malformation) and one infant with multiple malformations (but the mother was not treated with mesalazine during organogenesis). Because of the relatively small number of pregnancies exposed to mesalazine (Pentasa) in this study, these data need to be confirmed by other studies.