title: The importance of increased dialysis and anemia management for infant survival in pregnant women on hemodialysis.
abstract: Despite advances in recent decades, infant survival in pregnant women on hemodialysis remains suboptimal. Asamiya et al. found that higher maternal hemoglobin was associated with successful pregnancy and maternal blood urea nitrogen (BUN) was negatively correlated with infant birth weight and gestational age. Their study suggests that increased or intensive dialysis to achieve predialysis maternal BUN levels <48 mg/dl along with increased doses of erythropoietin to ensure maternal hemoglobin levels > or =9.6+/-0.9 g/dl, should be the standard for pregnant women on hemodialysis.
authors.affiliation: University of Rochester Medical Center, Nephrology Unit, Rochester, New York, USA. Electronic address: sai_reddy@urmc.rochester.edu.
authors.forename: Sai Subhodhini
authors.initials: SS
authors.lastname: Reddy
authors.affiliation: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, USA.
authors.forename: Jean L
authors.initials: JL
authors.lastname: Holley
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000740:Anemia / Q000188:drug therapy*; D001806:Blood Urea Nitrogen; D019468:Disease Management; D004921:Erythropoietin / Q000627:therapeutic use; D005260:Female; D006454:Hemoglobins / Q000032:analysis; D006801:Humans; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D011247:Pregnancy; D011248:Pregnancy Complications / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000628:therapy*; D011256:Pregnancy Outcome; D006435:Renal Dialysis; D013534:Survival; D055815:Young Adult
chemical_list: D006454:Hemoglobins; D004921:Erythropoietin