|
|||||
|
|
Vasculitis and kidney involvement in pregnancy: evidence-based medicine and ethics bear upon clinical choices. |
||
| Authors: | Giorgina Barbara Piccoli Elisabetta Mezza Salvatore Bontempo Manuel Burdese Giorgio Soragna Massimo Gai Valentina Consiglio Alberto Jeantet Giuseppe Paolo Segoloni Giuseppe Piccoli Tullia Todros | |
| Affiliation: | Department of Internal Medicine, University of Turin, Italy. gbpiccoli@yahoo.it | |
| Abstract: | Introduction | Wegener's granulomatosis is a rare, protean disease, with evensex distribution and higher incidence in Caucasians. Its yearlyincidence is|
|---|---|---|
| Keywords: | evidence-based medicine informed consent physician– patient relationship pregnancy renal disease Wegener's granulomatosis | |
| 本文献已被 Oxford 等数据库收录！ | ||
512 per 1 000 000 [1] and it displays awide range of clinical presentations from a mild, localisedlesion to widespread severe disease [2]. The age range is wide, with the peak in the 40s. Women in thechildbearing age group are not spared, and pregnancy presentsa critical condition both for the onset of the disease and forits flare-ups [2,3]. The decision of a patient with Wegener's granulomatosis to becomepregnant presents a clinical dilemma [3]. To face it