Excerpt from Renal Disease and Pregnancy
Synonyms, Key Words, and Related Terms: end-stage renal disease, ESRD, renal replacement therapy, renal transplantation, renal failure, renal insufficiency, kidney transplantation, urinary tract infections, UTIs, asymptomatic bacteriuria, pyelonephritis, cystitis, gestational hypertension
Physiologic changes occurring in pregnancy involve nearly every organ system, and the kidneys are no exception. This article focuses not only on renal diseases that occur in pregnancy but also on how pregnancy affects chronic renal diseases. Patients with end-stage renal disease (ESRD) requiring renal replacement therapy and patients after renal transplantation pose additional interesting scenarios and possible complications. This subject is quite vast and the authors believe it important to ask two questions in the setting of pregnancy and renal disease: How does pregnancy affect kidney disease? How does kidney disease affect pregnancy
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