Severe polycystic kidney disease in pregnancy. Report of fetal survival.
Advanced polycystic renal disease associated with pregnancy is very rare. A severely uremic pregnant patient with Landesman's Group C disease was delivered by cesarean section at 33 weeks' gestation, after dexamethasone treatment for fetal lung maturation. This is the first surviving infant in a case of Group C polycystic kidney disease.
D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D008297:Male; D007690:Polycystic Kidney Diseases / Q000151:congenital / Q000401:mortality*; D011247:Pregnancy; D011248:Pregnancy Complications / Q000401:mortality*