With higher risks to mother and baby in pregnant women with renal disease, critical decision-making is key. Giving practical guidance for antenatal, post-partum and maternity unit challenges, this book supports good practice and evidence-based management. The book includes evidence on antenatal and post-partum care; management of acute kidney injury in the delivery suite; and care guidelines for acute, chronic, and previously undiagnosed kidney diseases. The book also covers acute kidney injury, transplant, dialysis, pre-conception counselling, and medications. Previously published by RCOG, this revised edition includes: • Updated expert consensus statements • Complete revision, with a new chapter on contraception • Updates in management of acute kidney injury, hypertension, dialysis and pregnancy, renal transplantation and pre-eclampsia. Structured to help clinicians make decisions, this book is for use by obstetricians, renal physicians, maternal medicine clinicians, midwives, urologists and specialist nurses.

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Contents

۱ Renal Physiology
۲ Prepregnancy Counseling and Risk Assessment
۳ Contraception in Women with Renal Disease
۴ Assisted Reproduction in Women with Renal Disease
۵ CKD and Pregnancy: Patterns of Care and General Principles of Management
۶ Midwifery Issues
۷ Drugs in Women with Renal Disease and Transplant Recipients in Pregnancy
۸ Management of Hypertension in Renal Disease in Pregnancy
۹ Postpartum Follow-Up of Antenatally Identified Renal Problems
۱۰ Pregnancy and Dialysis
۱۱ Pregnancy and the Renal Transplant Recipient
۱۲ Comorbid Conditions Affecting Pregnancy in Renal Transplant Patients
۱۳ Reflux Nephropathy in Pregnancy
۱۴ Lupus and Vasculitis in Pregnancy
۱۵ Diabetic Nephropathy in Pregnancy
۱۶ Urological Problems in Pregnancy
۱۷ Acute Kidney Injury in Pregnancy: Causes not Due to Preeclampsia
۱۸ Preeclampsia-Related Renal Impairment
۱۹ Renal Biopsy in Pregnancy