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Drug Pregnancy implication Lactation consideration Risks Selective use allowed during pregnancy Glucocorticoids (e.g., prednisone) Prednisone is suggested at the lowest possible dose to control the disease (less than 10 mg/day) If…

Condition Subcondition Combined pill/patch/ring Progestin-only pill Injection LNG IUS initiation LNG-IUS continuation CU-T initiation Cu-T continuation Solid organ transplantation Complicated 4 2 2 3 2 3 2  Uncomplicated 2 2…

Fig. 14.1 Risk consideration in a transplant recipient Table 14.1 Guidelines for managing pregnancy in a transplant recipient Counseling after transplantation  Contraception counseling  Discussions regarding timing of pregnancy, waiting at…

Volume overload Refractory acidosis Refractory hyperkalemia Uremic symptoms Decreased nutritional status, malnutrition Persistent BUN >50 mg/dL Uncontrollable hypertension Blood urea nitrogen (BUN) levels, as well as uremic symptoms, play a major…

Structural changes in the kidney:  Increase in kidney size by 1–1.5 cm (and up to 30% in volume)  Dilatation of the collecting system, more prominent on the right Systemic hemodynamic…

 1. Severe resetting of the osmostat  2. Syndrome of inappropriate antidiuretic hormone (SIADH)   (a) Nausea vomiting   (b) Pain   (c) Medications  3. Nephrogenic syndrome of inappropriate antidiuresis (NSIAD)  4. Addison’s disease…

Fig. 8.1 A 32-year-old female, 13 weeks gestation, with history of nephrolithiasis presented with left-sided flank pain and low-grade fever. Ultrasonography showed (a) normal right kidney, (b) left hydronephrosis, (c) right…

!DOCTYPE html> © Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020M. Sachdeva, I. Miller (eds.)Obstetric and Gynecologic Nephrologyhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-25324-0_6 6. Glomerular Disease and Pregnancy Hitesh H. Shah1, Kenar D. Jhaveri2 and Jai Radhakrishnan3   (1) Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, Long Island…