The experience of pregnancy after renal transplantation: pregnancies even within postoperative 1 year may be tolerable.

Background: To identify factors related with successful pregnancy in renal transplant recipients and the effect of pregnancy on long-term graft outcome.

Methods: The study group consisted of 48 women who conceived after undergoing renal transplantation (total pregnancies 74). The control group consisted of 187 nonpregnant female renal transplant recipients.