Reproductive health and pregnancy in women with chronic kidney disease

Nature Reviews Nephrology

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2018, Pages 165-184

  Wiles, Kate S ^a,b   Nelson Piercy, Catherine ^b,c   Bramham, Kate ^d  

^a ST THOMAS HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b GUY'S AND ST THOMAS' NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^c IMPERIAL COLLEGE HEALTHCARE NHS TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^d KING'S COLLEGE HOSPITAL NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ALLOPURINOL; ANGIOTENSIN RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST; ATENOLOL; AZATHIOPRINE; CAPTOPRIL; COLCHICINE; CORTICOSTEROID; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; CYCLOSPORINE; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE INHIBITOR; ECULIZUMAB; ENALAPRIL; ETONOGESTREL; GONADORELIN DERIVATIVE; HYDROXYCHLOROQUINE; LABETALOL; LEVONORGESTREL; LOW MOLECULAR WEIGHT HEPARIN; METHYLDOPA; METOPROLOL; MIFEPRISTONE; MISOPROSTOL; MYCOPHENOLATE MOFETIL; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID; NIFEDIPINE; PREDNISOLONE; RITUXIMAB; TACROLIMUS; UNINDEXED DRUG;

AMENORRHEA; ANEMIA; AORTIC ARCH ANOMALY; BONE MALFORMATION; CHRONIC KIDNEY FAILURE; CLEFT LIP PALATE; COMORBIDITY; CONGENITAL DIAPHRAGM HERNIA; CONGENITAL HEART MALFORMATION; CONTRACEPTION; DIABETIC NEPHROPATHY; DIAPHRAGM HERNIA; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG EXCRETION; DRUG MECHANISM; DRUG MILK LEVEL; DRUG SAFETY; DRUG SUBSTITUTION; EAR MALFORMATION; EYE MALFORMATION; FACE MALFORMATION; FEMALE FERTILITY; FEMALE SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION; FETOTOXICITY; GLOMERULONEPHRITIS; GLOMERULUS FILTRATION RATE; HEMODIALYSIS; HEMOLYTIC UREMIC SYNDROME; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS GONAD SYSTEM; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; INTRAUTERINE GROWTH RETARDATION; KIDNEY BLOOD FLOW; KIDNEY FAILURE; KIDNEY MALFORMATION; KIDNEY POLYCYSTIC DISEASE; LIMB MALFORMATION; LIP MALFORMATION; LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; LOW DRUG DOSE; LUNG HYPOPLASIA; LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS NEPHRITIS; MICROGNATHIA; MICROTIA; NAIL HYPOPLASIA; OLIGOHYDRAMNIOS; OLIGOSPERMIA; OVARY INSUFFICIENCY; PALATE MALFORMATION; PAROXYSMAL NOCTURNAL HEMOGLOBINURIA; PERITONEAL DIALYSIS; PREECLAMPSIA; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREGNANCY RATE; PREMATURE LABOR; PREMATURE OVARIAN FAILURE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEINURIA; RAPIDLY PROGRESSIVE GLOMERULONEPHRITIS; REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SKULL MALFORMATION; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION; SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS; TERATOGENICITY; TRACHEOESOPHAGEAL FISTULA; VITAMIN D DEFICIENCY; COMPLICATION; FEMALE; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION;

CONTRACEPTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; RENAL INSUFFICIENCY, CHRONIC; REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH;

EID: 85044198576     PISSN: 17595061     EISSN: 1759507X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrneph.2017.187     Document Type: Review

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