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[Kidney transplantation and pregnancy. Report of a case]

F Mecacci1, P La Torre, E Parretti

  • 1Clinica Ostetrica e Ginecologica II, Università degli Studi, Firenze.

Minerva Ginecologica
|January 12, 1999
PubMed

The aim of this study was to evaluate the extent to which the presence of a transplanted kidney conditions the physiological renal and maternal cardiocirculatory adaptation to pregnancy. For this purpose, we compared the trend of cardiocirculatory and renal hematochemical parameters in a kidney-transplant patient to a group of 100 physiological pregnant women followed longitudinally. M. G., aged 36, primigravida, who underwent renal transplantation ten years before, was carefully monitored throughout gestation. Pregnancy was free of complications and ended at 38 weeks with an elective caesarian section. The trend of the parameters mirrored the physiological pattern, even if the values for some renal parameters were completely different. This type of comparison enabled us to evaluate the adaptation of the transplanted organ and the body to pregnancy and to formulate a prognostic judgement halfway through pregnancy regarding the outcome.

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