2020
DOI: 10.1186/s12882-020-01729-5
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Exclusion of pregnancy in dialysis patients: diagnostic performance of human chorionic gonadotropin

Abstract: Background: A positive pregnancy test in acute or chronically ill patients has implications for the use of potentially mutagenic or teratogenic products in urgent medical therapies such as the use of chemotherapies or therapies with immunosuppressants, for anesthesia, and for time-sensitive indications like urgent surgery or organ Transplantation. Despite a lack of evidence, it is currently believed that human chorionic gonadotropin serum concentrations are always elevated in female dialysis patients even with… Show more

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“…Low levels of HCG positivity (<25 mIU/mL) have been observed in 14.5% of non-pregnant women of childbearing age on dialysis. 25 To confirm a pregnancy, serial testing should show a rapid rise in HCG level and a viability ultrasound is recommended to identify a gestational sac early in first trimester.…”
Section: Fertility and Eskdmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Low levels of HCG positivity (<25 mIU/mL) have been observed in 14.5% of non-pregnant women of childbearing age on dialysis. 25 To confirm a pregnancy, serial testing should show a rapid rise in HCG level and a viability ultrasound is recommended to identify a gestational sac early in first trimester.…”
Section: Fertility and Eskdmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Üreme çağındaki diyaliz hastalarında gebelik insidansı %1-7 arasında olup, bu oran ülkelere göre farklılık göstermektedir. 1 Diyaliz alan gebelerde en sık görülen maternal komplikasyonlar; spontan düşük, küretaj, plasental abrupsiyon, anemi, enfeksiyon, erken membran rüptürü, polihidroamnios, erken doğum, kontrol edilemeyen hipertansiyon, preeklampsi-eklampsi, kanama ve anne ölümüdür. 2,3 Fetal komplikasyonlar; intrauterin büyümeyi geriliği (IUGR), akut ya da konik fetal sıkıntı, prematüritelik, yenidoğanda solunum sıkıntısı, intrauterin ölüm ve yenidoğan ölümü şeklinde sıralanmaktadır.…”
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