Gabrielle Normand, Flora Brunner, Lionel Badet, Fanny Buron, Marielle Catton, Jérôme Massardier, Laure Esposito, Philippe Grimbert, Georges Mourad, Jean E Serre, Sophie Caillard, Georges Karam, Diego Cantarovich, Emmanuel Morelon, Olivier Thaunat
Simultaneous pancreas and kidney transplantation (SPK) is currently the best therapeutic option for patients with type 1 diabetes and terminal renal failure. Renal transplantation restores fertility enabling women to pursue pregnancies. However, scarcity of available data on pregnancy outcomes in SPK impedes fair medical counseling. Medical files of all pregnancies that lasted ≥3 months among recipients of functional SPK performed between 1990 and 2015 in France were retrospectively analyzed. Twenty-six pregnancies in 22 SPK recipients were identified...
September 2017: Transplant International