...Silvi Shah; Prasoon Verma Pregnancy-related AKI is a global health problem and is associated with a higher risk of both maternal and fetal morbidity and mortality. Risk factors for developing AKI during pregnancy include older age, history of preeclampsia, and comorbidities like diabetes...

.... However, being a living kidney donor is not without risk, as donors may encounter short- and long-term complications including the risk of developing chronic kidney disease, end-stage kidney disease, hypertension, and possible pregnancy-related complications. Although the evaluation of potential living...

...Eric Rondeau; Gianluigi Ardissino; Marie-Pierre Caby-Tosi; Imad Al-Dakkak; Fadi Fakhouri; Benjamin Miller; Marie Scully; on behalf of the Global aHUS Registry Background: Pregnancy outcomes in patients with atypical hemolytic uremic syndrome (aHUS) are not well-documented. Here, we present...

... should focus in addressing unanswered issues such as the appropriate dose and duration of immunosuppressive treatment, timing of steroid withdrawal, and drug toxicity. In addition, data are still lacking regarding pregnancy and kidney transplantation in LN and knowledge about these important areas...

...Rozemarijn Snoek; Rieke van der Graaf; Jildau R. Meinderts; Franka van Reekum; Kitty W.M. Bloemenkamp; Nine V.A.M. Knoers; Albertien M. van Eerde; A. Titia Lely Background: Thanks to the advances in care, pregnancy is now attainable for the majority of young female CKD patients, although...

... with a minority of patients having autosomal recessive mutations in the COL4A3 or COL4A4 genes encoding the α3(IV) or α4(IV) chain respectively. Here, we describe the case of a 31-year-old woman who presented during pregnancy with hematuria and proteinuria and was diagnosed with autosomal recessive Alport...

...Roger van Groenendael; Matthijs Kox; Lucas T. van Eijk; Peter Pickkers The systemic inflammatory response following infectious or non-infectious insults is related to morbidity (including acute kidney injury) and mortality. Pregnancy is associated with immunotolerance and an increased glomerular...

...J. Bernheim Normal pregnancy is characterized by a marked reduction in peripheral vascular resistance. Blood pressure is diminished, while cardiac output, blood volume, renal blood flow and the glomerular filtration rate are increased. These hemodynamic changes are reversed in preeclampsia...

...Claudia Pozzi; Sergio Bisegna; Celestina Manzoni; Cesare Dell’Oro; Francesco Locatelli A 39-year-old woman, with proteinuria and microhematuria, at about the 8th week of pregnancy showed a reduction in proteinuria. After the 16th week, proteinuria disappeared. In the 40th week, the patient...

...G.H. Neild Haemolytic uraemic syndrome Acute renal failure Pregnancy Verocytotoxin 11 12 2008 1991 Copyright / Drug Dosage / Disclaimer Copyright: All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be translated into other languages, reproduced or utilized in any form...

... of gestation and 12 weeks postpaitum. Of the 67 primigravidae, 55 completed a normal pregnancy and 12 developed pregnancy-induced hypertension. In the latter group, an additional measurement of urinary albumin excretion was performed at 24 weeks postpartum. The aims of the study were: to look for changes...

...Peter T. Fröhling; Maria Birnbaum; Horst Halle; Kristina Lindenau A case is reported of a successful pregnancy of a woman with advanced renal failure treated nutritionally. The importance of an intensive interdisciplinary medical coworking is stressed, and the individual adaptation of the dietary...

... normal pregnant women (NP), 12 women with hypertension in pregnancy (HP), and 4 women with toxemia. All pregnant women were in the last trimester of their pregnancy (week 24–40). K was raised in NP (99.6 ± 8.1 KU/24 h) and HP (106.5 ± 8 KU/24h) compared to NW(57 ± 8.23 KU/24h)(p < 0.05). PGE 2...

... varied considerably with elevation in 32% of 52 measured values (10-fold elevation in 2 cases). We conclude that in the blood of non-pregnant women on chronic hemodialysis, elevated hCGβ values can be found, erroneously indicating an intact pregnancy of 3–5 weeks duration or a nonintact pregnancy (e.g...

...L. Sellars; K. Siamopoulos; R. Wilkinson Renal artery stenosis was diagnosed in 3 women when hypertension of pregnancy persisted beyond the pueperium; all had poor obstetric histories and 2 had been hypertensive in the first trimester. A fourth case presented as hypertension associated with oral...

...A.S. David; D.W.W. Newling; M.J. Fan A successful pregnancy in a patient who presented with renal failure secondary to pelvi-ureteric obstruction is described. Haemodialysis was instituted during the pregnancy. An Anderson-Hynes pyeloplasty was performed, probably preventing deterioration...

...C. Rotellar; A. Ferragut; J. Borrull We present here a case describing the gestation and delivery in a patient who had been on regular dialysis therapy for 3 years. She gave birth to a girl in the 28th week of pregnancy, who died 8 h later. Hemodialysis Pregnancy Chronic renal failure...

...Richard P. Burden; Waller N. Boyd; Geoffrey M. Aber Angiographic and histological studies of the intrarenal circulation have been undertaken in 20 patients following complicated pregnancies: 12 patients had had hypertension of pregnancy (group 1); 7 acute renal failure due to either ante- or post...

... or safety. The publisher and the editor(s) disclaim responsibility for any injury to persons or property resulting from any ideas, methods, instructions or products referred to in the content or advertisements. Uremia Bone disease Pregnancy Growth Calcium metabolism Nephron JO: 195-207(1973...

...Yoshio Horita; Sei Tsunoda; Takashi Inenaga; Yuhei Kawano; Hatsue Ishibashi-Ueda; Yoshihide Chiba; Shuichi Takishita We describe two pregnancies of a young woman with mixed connective tissue disease. In June 1983, she was diagnosed as having Raynaud’s phenomenon, arthralgia, and proteinuria. She...