Can Erythropoiesis stimulating agents be used during pregnancy? Erythropoiesis stimulating agents are continued in dialysis patients during pregnancy and the dose has to be increased to achieve the same hemoglobin level. They can be started in non-dialysis patients if the hemoglobin drops to 8 g/dL.
Is successful pregnancy possible in patients on renal replacement therapy? Fertility is markedly decreased in dialysis patients with frequency of conception ranging from 0.3% to 1.5% per dialysis patient per year. One exception is a 15% conception rate among women treated with nocturnal dialysis. There are no data on whether or not women were trying …
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What is the Effect of chronic kidney disease on fertility and pregnancy? Fertility is decreased in women with preexisting kidney disease. Since the denominator (number of women with kidney disease trying to become pregnant) is not known, it is impossible to know how much fertility is decreased, but it is unusual to see a pregnancy …
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What are the causes of acute kidney injury in pregnancy? In underdeveloped countries, sepsis from illegal abortion and preeclampsia are the most common causes of acute kidney injury. With improved health care systems, pregnancy-associated acute kidney injury is rare, on the order of 1 in 10,000 to 20,000 pregnancies. Preeclampsia is occasionally associated with acute …
What are the hypertensive disorders of pregnancy? The three other hypertensive disorders of pregnancy are chronic hypertension, chronic hypertension with superimposed preeclampsia, and gestational hypertension. Women with preexisting hypertension may become pregnant so that essential hypertension is seen during pregnancy. The diagnosis of essential hypertension is made by a blood pressure ≤140/90 before 20 weeks …
What is the importance of preeclampsia? Preeclampsia is the most common and important of the hypertensive disorders of pregnancy, affecting between 5% and 7% of pregnancies. Preeclampsia is a multisystem disease. The American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology does not require proteinuria if other end-organ disease is present. Severe preeclampsia is denoted by its most …
How often do urinary tract infections occur during pregnancy? Urinary stasis from the dilated collecting system predisposes to urinary tract infections. Asymptomatic bacteriuria occurs in 5% of pregnancies. Untreated, 30% of asymptomatic bacteriuria leads to pyelonephritis, which in pregnant women is frequently complicated by decreased kidney function/acute kidney injury, sepsis, and even acute respiratory distress …
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