Exposure to antiandrogen during pregnancy: Case report

Abstract

Idiopathic hirsutism is most effectively treated with antiandrogens such as cyproterone acetate.1 Laboratory animals exposed to cyproterone acetate during fetal life, however, have shown abnormal sexual differentiation.2 The risk of fetal malformations in man after cyproterone acetate medication during pregnancy is also thought to be high but few data are available. We present the case of a woman who was inadvertently prescribed cyproterone acetate during the first 17 weeks of pregnancy. © 1987, British Medical Journal Publishing Group. All rights reserved.