title: Pregnancy after renal transplantation: prospects and concerns.
abstract: The first child born to a renal transplant patient who was the first woman undergone a renal transplant from her identical twin celebrated his 53th birthday on March 10, 2009. Since this first experience, over 14,000 births among women with transplanted organs have been reported worldwide and several more also not reported. Pregnancy is now considered a frequent part of women after organ transplantation. However, substantial gaps remain in our knowledge about pregnancy in the transplant recipient and its effects on the mother and child. As well, several ethical concerns have been raised about the wisdom of pregnancy for a woman with a proportionally lower life span with expected medical complications. In this review article we tried to address all issues related to pregnancy after renal transplantation.<br />
authors.affiliation: Baqiyatallah Research Center for Gastroenterology & Liver Diseases, Baqiyatallah University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran. khedmat.h@gmail.com
authors.forename: Hossein
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Khedmat
authors.forename: Seyed Moayed
authors.initials: SM
authors.lastname: Alavian
authors.forename: Saeed
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Taheri
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D026690:Ethics, Clinical; D005260:Female; D005333:Fetus / Q000187:drug effects; D006085:Graft Survival; D006801:Humans; D007166:Immunosuppressive Agents / Q000494:pharmacology; D016030:Kidney Transplantation; D008017:Life Expectancy; D011247:Pregnancy; D011256:Pregnancy Outcome; D014184:Transplantation, Homologous
chemical_list: D007166:Immunosuppressive Agents