Pregnancy and kidney transplantation : experience in a developing country

Abstract Between January 1968 and December 1992, 136 kidney transplants were performed in the University Hospital of Ribeirao Preto, with women of childbearing age (14 to 40 years) as receptors. From this population, 19 patients became pregnant at least once after transplantation, and 2 were transplanted inadvertently during the first trimester of their pregnancies. There was a total of 25 pregnancies and 27 offspring. The mean age at the time of conception was 28.6 years (23 to 41 years), with a mean interval of 3.5 years from transplant to conception (