TY - JOUR
T1 - Pregnancy and Contraceptive Counseling of Women With Chronic Kidney Disease and Kidney Transplants
AU - Watnick, Suzanne
PY - 2007/4
Y1 - 2007/4
N2 - Women with kidney disease of childbearing age should expect proactive counseling regarding pregnancy and contraception. Discussions should include the impact of pregnancy on their kidney disease and the impact of kidney disease on maternal and fetal outcomes. However, nephrologists rarely discuss sexual dysfunction, infertility, menstrual irregularities, and contraception with their premenopausal women patients. This review will consider pregnancy-related issues to discuss when counseling women with all stages of chronic kidney disease. Issues related to contraception in women on dialysis, women with functioning kidney transplants, and those with chronic kidney disease will also be reviewed.
AB - Women with kidney disease of childbearing age should expect proactive counseling regarding pregnancy and contraception. Discussions should include the impact of pregnancy on their kidney disease and the impact of kidney disease on maternal and fetal outcomes. However, nephrologists rarely discuss sexual dysfunction, infertility, menstrual irregularities, and contraception with their premenopausal women patients. This review will consider pregnancy-related issues to discuss when counseling women with all stages of chronic kidney disease. Issues related to contraception in women on dialysis, women with functioning kidney transplants, and those with chronic kidney disease will also be reviewed.
KW - Chronic kidney disease
KW - counseling
KW - dialysis
KW - kidney transplantation
KW - pregnancy
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U2 - 10.1053/j.ackd.2007.01.003
DO - 10.1053/j.ackd.2007.01.003
M3 - Article
C2 - 17395115
AN - SCOPUS:33947545379
VL - 14
SP - 126
EP - 131
JO - Advances in Chronic Kidney Disease
JF - Advances in Chronic Kidney Disease
SN - 1548-5595
IS - 2
ER -