Open AccessA Comparison of the Outcome of Pregnancies After Liver and Kidney Transplantation
Author(s) -
Cornelia Blume,
A. Sensoy,
Mechthild M. Groß,
Heinrich H. Guenter,
Hermann Haller,
Michael P. Manns,
Anke Schwarz,
Frank Lehner,
J. Klempnauer,
Sven Pischke,
Christian P. Strassburg
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
transplantation
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.45
H-Index - 204
eISSN - 1534-6080
pISSN - 0041-1337
DOI - 10.1097/tp.0b013e318277e318
Subject(s) - gestation , medicine , pregnancy , obstetrics , transplantation , liver transplantation , live birth , fetus , kidney transplantation , gynecology , surgery , genetics , biology
Pregnancies are an issue difficult to manage in recipients of solid organ grafts. Whereas most studies report on individual women who have received transplants, we retrospectively studied all gestations of women with liver (LT) or kidney transplants (KT) from October 1988 to August 2010 at one major transplantation center in Germany and compared the outcome.