Study characterizes effects of severe kidney injury during pregnancy

Friday, May 15, 2015 - 09:00 in Health & Medicine

The incidence of acute kidney injury that requires dialysis is 1 in 10,000 pregnancies, a new Canadian study reports; otherwise healthy women who acquire a major pregnancy-related complication are at increased risk. In pregnancies affected by severe acute kidney injury, babies are at increased risk of having low birth weights or being born prematurely, the researchers report.

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