Research from New Zealand and Australia using data from more than 1.6 million women shows that women who are pregnant while on dialysis have significantly worse outcomes compared with women who have already received a kidney transplant, or
will eventually start dialysis but had not yet reached that point by the time of their pregnancy.
In a Medscape article on the study, Silvi Shah, MD, of the Division of Nephrology, Kidney CARE Program at the UC College of Medicine said pregnancies in women with kidney disease are high risk.
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