Cisapride use during human pregnancy : A prospective, controlled multicenter study

• Published in: Digestive diseases and sciences Vol. 42; no. 9; pp. 1848 - 1852
• Main Authors: BAILEY, B, ADDIS, A, DE SOUZA, C. F. M, MATSUI, D, SCHECHTMAN, A. S, CONOVER, B, LAU, M, KOREN, G, LEE, A, SANGHVI, K, MASTROIACOVO, P, MAZZONE, T, BONATI, M, PAOLINI, C, GARBIS, H, VAL, T
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Heidelberg Springer 01.09.1997; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Abnormalities, Drug-Induced - epidemiology; Abnormalities, Drug-Induced - etiology; Abortion, Spontaneous - chemically induced; Adult; Biological and medical sciences; Birth Weight - drug effects; Case-Control Studies; Cisapride; Cohort Studies; Female; Gastrointestinal Agents - adverse effects; Gastrointestinal Agents - therapeutic use; Genital system. Reproduction; Humans; Infant, Newborn; Medical sciences; Pharmacology. Drug treatments; Piperidines - adverse effects; Piperidines - therapeutic use; Pregnancy; Pregnancy Complications - drug therapy; Prospective Studies; Risk Factors; Pregnancy; Human; Prospective; Evaluation; Cisapride; Malformation; Multicenter study; Risk factor; Female; Fetomaternal relation; Antiemetic; Female genital diseases
• ISSN: 0163-2116; 1573-2568
• DOI: 10.1023/A:1018898707449

The objective of this prospective multicenter study was to determine whether cisapride is associated with increased risk of malformations, spontaneous abortions, or decreased birthweight when used during pregnancy. Cases were paired for age, smoking, and alcohol consumption with controls exposed to nonteratogens, as well as with disease-paired controls. One hundred and twenty-nine pregnant women were exposed to cisapride during pregnancy, including 88 during the period of fetal organogenesis. There were no differences in maternal history, birthweight, gestational age at delivery, and rates of livebirths, spontaneous or therapeutic abortions, fetal distress, and major or minor malformations among groups. It is concluded that exposure to cisapride during pregnancy is not associated with a major increased risk of malformations or spontaneous abortions or with decreased birthweight.