TY  - JOUR
TI  - Pregnancy and its outcomes in hemodialysis patients in Turkey
AB  - Background/aim: This study aimed to investigate pregnancy frequency and evaluate the factors affecting live births in hemodialysis
(HD) patients. 
Materials and methods: Female HD patients whose pregnancy was retrospectively reported between January 1, 2014, and December 31, 2019. The duration of HD, primary disease, and the information on whether the pregnancy resulted in abortion, stillbirth, or live birth, whether the HD duration was prolonged after diagnosing the pregnancy and whether it accompanied preeclampsia were recorded.
Results: In this study, we reached 9038 HD female patients’ data in the study. A total of 235 pregnancies were detected in 145 patients.
The mean age was 35.42 (35 ± 7.4) years. The mean age at first gestation was 30.8 ± 6.5 years. The average birth week was 32 (28 –36) weeks. A total of 53.8% (no = 78) of the patients had live birth, 51.7% (no = 70) had at least one abortion in the first 20 weeks, and 13.1% (no = 19) had at least one stillbirth after 20 weeks. The rate of patients’ increased numbers of dialysis sessions during pregnancy was 71.7%. The abortion rate was 22.4% in those with increased HD sessions, whereas 79.3% in those not increased HD sessions (p < 0.001).
Live birth frequency was 67.2% in the increased HD sessions group and 3.4% in those who did not differ in HD sessions (p < 0.001).
Conclusion: For the first time, we reported pregnancy outcomes in HD female patients, covering all regions of Turkey. It has been observed that; increasing the number of HD sessions in dialysis patients will decrease fetal and maternal complications and increase live birth rates.
AU  - Bardak, Simge
AU  - ERCAN, ZAFER
AU  - TEKKARISMAZ, NIHAN
AU  - Değirmenci, Ali
AU  - sevinc, can
AU  - Eren, Necmi
AU  - DERVISOGLU, ERKAN
AU  - Sahutoglu, Tuncay
AU  - turgutalp, kenan
AU  - ALP, ALPER
AU  - KARAKÖSE, SÜLEYMAN
AU  - Günay, Emrah
AU  - Gok Oguz, Ebru
AU  - ULU, MEMNUNE SENA
AU  - ATILGAN, KADIR GOKHAN
AU  - Bakirdogen, Serkan
AU  - Bekfilavioglu, Garip
AU  - YILMAZ, Zülfikar
AU  - kazan, sinan
AU  - İNCİ, Ayça
AU  - Aylı, Mehmet Deniz
AU  - Kurultak, Ilhan
AU  - TOPAL, Cevat
AU  - Kaptanoğulları, Hakan
AU  - BOZACI, İLTER
AU  - tatar, erhan
AU  - mutluay, ruya
AU  - Paydas, Saime
AU  - dheir, hamad
AU  - Yıldız, Abdülmecit
AU  - Sipahi, Savaş
AU  - Altunoren, Orcun
AU  - Hüzmeli, can
AU  - Aydin, Zeki
AU  - Soypacaci, Zeki
AU  - saritas, hazen
AU  - Pembegul, Irem
AU  - DEMİRCİ, Meltem Seziş
AU  - Karaveli Gürsoy, Güner
AU  - Şakacı, Murat
AU  - Yavaş, Hakan
AU  - KILIÇ, İlhan
AU  - gökçay bek, sibel
AU  - Akdam, Hakan
AU  - Tunca, Onur
AU  - Eroğlu, Eray
AU  - Güneş Keskin, Ayşe Jini
AU  - hur, ender
AU  - Huddam, Bülent
AU  - SAHIN, GARIP
AU  - Kara, Ekrem
AU  - Akarsu, Ozger
AU  - GÜNEY, IBRAHIM
AU  - Çolak, Hülya
AU  - DERICI, ULVER
AU  - TUNCAY, Mehmet
AU  - Gungor, Ozkan
DO  - 10.55730/1300-0144.5322
PY  - 2022
JO  - Turkish Journal of Medical Sciences
VL  - 52
IS  - 2
SN  - 1300-0144
SP  - 354
EP  - 360
DB  - TRDizin
UR  - http://search/yayin/detay/518010
ER  -