PKD Digest Cystic kidney disease · Weekly

All collections

Pregnancy and reproductive health

Research on pregnancy with polycystic kidney disease, for conversations with your kidney and maternity care teams. These findings do not predict an individual pregnancy.

Cards in this collection

  1. Obstetric outcomes in pregnancies complicated by polycystic kidney disease

    Using U.S. hospital data from 2016–2021, pregnancies coded with polycystic kidney disease had more cesarean births and complications such as preeclampsia, gestational diabetes, anemia, urinary infections, acute kidney injury, and preterm birth than pregnancies without PKD. Planned high-risk obstetric and kidney care matters — and coding can mix different cystic kidney types.