Dialysis and a plant-based diet to achieve physiologic urea levels for fetal benefit: Normal pregnancy outcome despite chronic kidney disease and hypertension
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Gilbertson, Elise
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Chronic kidney disease significantly increases the risk of adverse maternal and perinatal outcomes. A growing body of evidence suggests that intensive dialysis, achieving physiologic pre-dialysis blood urea, is associated with decreased morbidity. We report a case of a successful pregnancy outcome in a 32-year-old nulliparous woman with stage 4 chronic kidney disease who dialysed from 11 to 31 weeks, gestation for fetal benefit and concurrently trialled a plant-based diet. We hypothesise that her dietary changes assisted with urea reduction, enabling her to become dialysis independent. Although we must recognise that such pregnancies remain high risk, as demonstrated both in this case and more recent literature, advances in complex obstetric care and dialysis protocols may now give women with chronic kidney disease a realistic hope of a successful pregnancy.
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Obstetric Medicine
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Obstetrics and gynaecology
Nephrology and urology
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Obstetrics & Gynecology
Chronic kidney disease
dialysis
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Seed, E; Gilbertson, E, Dialysis and a plant-based diet to achieve physiologic urea levels for fetal benefit: Normal pregnancy outcome despite chronic kidney disease and hypertension, Obstetric Medicine, 2022