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Dialysis in pregnancy: an update review

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Basile, Carlo
Cozzolino, Mario

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Chronic kidney disease and end-stage kidney disease (ESKD) are important public health problems with increased rates of morbidity, mortality, and social costs. Pregnancy is rare in patients with ESKD, with reduced fertility rates in women undergoing dialysis. Although current advances have led to an increase in live births in pregnant dialysis patients, this modality still has an increased risk of multiple adverse events in pregnant women. Despite these existing risks, large-scale studies investigating the management of pregnant women on dialysis are lacking, resulting in the absence of consensus guidelines for this patient group. In this review, we aimed to present the effects of dialysis during pregnancy. We first discuss pregnancy outcomes in dialysis patients and the development of acute kidney injury during pregnancy. Then, we discuss our recommendations for the management of pregnant dialysis patients, including the maintenance of pre-dialysis blood urea nitrogen levels, the ideal frequency and duration of hemodialysis sessions, as well as the modality of renal replacement therapies, the difficulty of maintaining peritoneal dialysis in the third trimester of pregnancy, and optimization of prepregnancy modifiable risk factors. Finally, we present our recommendations for future studies investigating dialysis among pregnant patients.

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Karger

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Hematology, Urology and nephrology

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Blood Purification

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10.1159/000531157

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