Chronic glomerulonephritis in pregnancy

Chronic glomerulonephritis is a group of basic clinical manifestations with hematuria, proteinuria, edema, and hypertension. The onset of the disease varies, the disease progresses, the lesions develop slowly, and there may be varying degrees of renal dysfunction. Eventually, A group of diseases that develop into chronic kidney failure. Chronic glomerulonephritis (chronic nephritis) can develop from acute nephritis, but most chronic nephritis does so from the beginning, not from acute nephritis. Women with glomerulonephritis have an increased burden on the kidneys during pregnancy and affect kidney function. Serious cases often endanger the lives of pregnant women and fetuses and must be taken seriously. Those with a mild condition are often easily confused with pregnancy-induced hypertension syndrome, and lack of due attention to the disease. The incidence of pregnancy with chronic glomerulonephritis accounts for about 0.03% to 0.10% of hospital delivery. In recent years, with the continuous development of medical treatment methods, the increase of high-risk pregnancy monitoring methods and the improvement of quality, the number of cases of pregnancy with chronic nephritis has increased year by year, and the pregnancy success rate has also increased significantly.

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