Beta HCG levels in a pregnant dialysis patient: a cautionary tale

Conception is rare in patients on chronic dialysis and diagnosis is often delayed as it is least expected. Serum beta HCG levels are elevated in both pregnant and non-pregnant dialysis patients, and pregnant dialysis patients have slightly higher beta HCG levels when compared with normal pregnancy....

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Autores principales: Potluri, Kavitha, Moldenhauer, Julie, Karlman, Roberta, Hou, Susan
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2011
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4421620/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25984100
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ndtplus/sfq195
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description Conception is rare in patients on chronic dialysis and diagnosis is often delayed as it is least expected. Serum beta HCG levels are elevated in both pregnant and non-pregnant dialysis patients, and pregnant dialysis patients have slightly higher beta HCG levels when compared with normal pregnancy. This can be erroneously interpreted as non-viable pregnancy and so results should be viewed with caution. Serial beta HCG levels must be followed when non-viable pregnancy is suspected in a dialysis patient before contemplating termination of pregnancy as described in our case.
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spelling pubmed-44216202015-05-15 Beta HCG levels in a pregnant dialysis patient: a cautionary tale Potluri, Kavitha Moldenhauer, Julie Karlman, Roberta Hou, Susan NDT Plus Case Report Conception is rare in patients on chronic dialysis and diagnosis is often delayed as it is least expected. Serum beta HCG levels are elevated in both pregnant and non-pregnant dialysis patients, and pregnant dialysis patients have slightly higher beta HCG levels when compared with normal pregnancy. This can be erroneously interpreted as non-viable pregnancy and so results should be viewed with caution. Serial beta HCG levels must be followed when non-viable pregnancy is suspected in a dialysis patient before contemplating termination of pregnancy as described in our case. Oxford University Press 2011-02 2010-11-23 /pmc/articles/PMC4421620/ /pubmed/25984100 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ndtplus/sfq195 Text en © The Author 2010. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of ERA-EDTA. All rights reserved. For permissions, please e-mail: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. For commercial re-use, please contact journals.permissions@oup.com
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4421620/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25984100
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ndtplus/sfq195
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