Journal article
Gestational Hypertension and Preeclampsia in Living Kidney Donors
Abstract
BACKGROUND: Young women wishing to become living kidney donors frequently ask whether nephrectomy will affect their future pregnancies.
METHODS: We conducted a retrospective cohort study of living kidney donors involving 85 women (131 pregnancies after cohort entry) who were matched in a 1:6 ratio with 510 healthy nondonors from the general population (788 pregnancies after cohort entry). Kidney donations occurred between 1992 and 2009 in …
Authors
Garg AX; Nevis IF; McArthur E; Sontrop JM; Koval JJ; Lam NN; Hildebrand AM; Reese PP; Storsley L; Gill JS
Journal
The New England Journal of Medicine, Vol. 372, No. 2, pp. 124–133
Publisher
Massachusetts Medical Society
Publication Date
January 8, 2015
DOI
10.1056/nejmoa1408932
ISSN
0028-4793