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Of all the medical disorders that add risk to pregnancy, renal disease has long ranked among those most feared by physicians. Not only are the renal and vascular manifestations of preeclampsia the most common medical complication of pregnancy, affecting 5 to 7 percent of previously healthy women, but also intrapartum worsening of renal function, along with increased fetal morbidity and mortality, has been the fate of a large proportion of pregnant women with underlying diseases of the kidney, at least in the past.¹ Careful longitudinal studies of large numbers of women with varying degrees of renal impairment are necessary to . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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