Ignorance is Not Bliss: The Case for Comprehensive Reproductive Counseling for Women with Chronic Kidney Disease.
HEC Forum
; 35(3): 223-236, 2023 Sep.
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| ID: mdl-34617168
ABSTRACT
The bioethics literature has paid little attention to matters of informed reproductive decision-making among women of childbearing age who have chronic kidney disease (CKD), including women who are on dialysis or women who have had a kidney transplant. Women with CKD receive inconsistent and, sometimes, inadequate reproductive counseling, particularly with respect to information about pursuing pregnancy. We identify four factors that might contribute to inadequate and inconsistent reproductive counseling. We argue that women with CKD should receive comprehensive reproductive counseling, including information about the possibility of pursuing pregnancy, and that more rigorous research on pregnancy in women with CKD, including women on dialysis or who have received a kidney transplant, is warranted to improve informed reproductive decision making in this population.
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Base de dados:
MEDLINE
Assunto principal:
Complicações na Gravidez
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Insuficiência Renal Crônica
Tipo de estudo:
Prognostic_studies
Limite:
Female
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Humans
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Pregnancy
Idioma:
En
Revista:
HEC Forum
Assunto da revista:
ETICA
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HOSPITAIS
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JURISPRUDENCIA
Ano de publicação:
2023
Tipo de documento:
Article
País de afiliação:
Estados Unidos