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 without pregnancy. It is also believed that human chorionic gonadotropin cannot be used to confirm or exclude pregnancy.

Methods

Human chorionic gonadotropin was examined in female dialysis patients (18-50 years of age), and was classified as positive above 5 mlU/ml. In addi

SUBMITTER: Haninger-Vacariu N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7049197 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature