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EDUCATION OF TRANSPLANTED WOMEN FOR PREVENTION OF UNPLANNED PREGNANCY FOLLOWING KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION
Author(s) -
Calic M.,
Grego K.,
Kersnic B.,
Jovanovic E.,
Svetlin M.,
Kandus A.
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
journal of renal care
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.381
H-Index - 27
eISSN - 1755-6686
pISSN - 1755-6678
DOI - 10.1111/j.1755-6686.2007.tb00031.x
Subject(s) - medicine , pregnancy , dialysis , infertility , abortion , kidney transplantation , transplantation , libido , renal replacement therapy , gynecology , obstetrics , pediatrics , intensive care medicine , surgery , genetics , biology
Reproductive function in female patients (pts) with advanced kidney disease is decreased and characterised by diminished libido, ovulation and infertility. The underlying cause is hypothalamic‐hypophysis‐gonadal axis dysfunction in women with chronic kidney disease which usually results in high levels of prolactin and.ammenorrhea In women with end stage kidney disease requiring replacement therapy in fertile period conception is very rare. Even in case of conception successful pregnancy and delivery are not likely, on most occasions spontaneous abortion occurs. Should a newly pregnant woman on haemodialysis wish to deliver the baby, intensive dialysis is required, everyday until childbirth. In the haemodialysis center in University Clinical Center in Ljubljana, only one woman in the chronic dialysis programme gave birth, in 1996.