Pregnancies in Women With Long-Chain Fatty Acid Oxidation Disorders
July 25 @ 11:00 am – 12:00 pm
As more women with lcFAODs are now of child-bearing age, questions of safety have arisen. Dr. Grunert will discuss an international study, in which scientists and clinicians collected data on 89 pregnancies in 39 women with lcFAODs. Their current data shows that the outcome of pregnancies in lcFAOD patients was generally favorable, despite a significant risk of metabolic decompensation during pregnancy and the postpartum period.
About the Speaker
Sarah Grünert, MD
Prof. Dr. Sarah Grünert is a pediatric metabolic specialist working at the University Children's Hospital Freiburg and associate professor of the Medical Faculty of the University Freiburg. After completing her medical studies in Freiburg, Innsbruck, London and Oxford, she performed her fellowship in Pediatrics at the University Medical Centre in Freiburg, Germany. In 2011, she completed a postdoctoral research fellowship at the University Children's Hospital Zürich, Switzerland. Her main clinical and research interests are fatty acid oxidation defects, hepatic glycogen storage diseases, and disorders of ketone body metabolism. She also is subnetwork coordinator for these diseases in the European Reference Network for Hereditary Metabolic Disorders (MetabERN).
