The Nephrotic Syndrome in Pregnancy

SUMMARY The clinical course of 10 patients with the idiopathic nephrotic syndrome who underwent 29 pregnancies is reported, together with the result of these pregnancies. Twenty of the pregnancies resulted in the birth of living infants. Patients with the uncomplicated type of the nephrotic syndrome underwent pregnancy with no change in the status of their disease. Although during five pregnancies in patients with the complicated type of the nephrotic syndrome there was progression of their disease, in all these patients after pregnancy there was a return to the pre‐pregnant status as judged on clinical and biochemical criteria. It is suggested that pregnancy associated with the idiopathic nephrotic syndrome has a good prognosis, and that pregnancy appears to have little immediate harmful effect on the course of the nephrotic syndrome.