Pregnancy after living kidney donation, a systematic review of the available evidence, and a review of the current guidance.

ABSTRACT: Understanding and communicating the risk of pregnancy complications post-living kidney donation is imperative as the majority of living kidney donors (LKD) are women of childbearing age. We aimed to identify all original research articles examining complications in post-donation pregnancies and compared the quality and consistency of related guidelines. We searched Embase, MEDLINE, PubMed, society webpages, and guideline registries for English-language publications published up until December 18, 2020. Ninety-three articles were screened from which 16 studies were identified, with a total of 1399 post-donation pregnancies. The outcome of interest, post-donation pregnancy complications, was not calculable, and only a narrative synthesis of the evidence was possible. The absolute risk of pre

SUBMITTER: Pippias M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9804926 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature