Pregnancy in CKD stages 3 to 5: fetal and maternal outcomes.

Background: Prognostic criteria to inform women with moderate to severe renal insufficiency who wish to bear children are not well established.

Study Design: Longitudinal multicenter cohort study.

Settings & Participants: Nondiabetic white women with pregnancies proceeded beyond the 20th week and estimated glomerular filtration rate (GFR) less than 60 mL/min/1.

Pregnancy in lupus nephritis.

Background: Fetal and maternal outcomes of 70 pregnancies in 48 women with lupus nephritis were retrospectively analyzed.

Methods: In 13 women, lupus nephritis developed during pregnancy (group A). In 38 patients with known lupus nephritis (including 3 patients in group A who had another pregnancy), 57 pregnancies occurred.