Urolithiasis in Pregnancy: Current Diagnosis, Treatment, and Pregnancy Complications

摘要: Urolithiasis complicates up to one in every 200 pregnancies; consequently, the practicing obstetrician should be aware of symptoms urolithiasis, diagnostic procedures available for its diagnosis, and their associated risks. These include ultrasound, urography, magnetic resonance imaging. Diagnosis urolithiasis during pregnancy can a challenge as result normal physiological changes pregnancy. Conservative management is first-line treatment noncomplicated If spontaneous passage stone does not occur or if complications develop, urologic consultation obtained. Several obstetric have been with including preterm labor premature rupture membranes, although reported rates these association vary widely overlap background rates. Given that will encountered by most obstetricians, obstetricians are often on front line this condition, an appreciation current modalities, protocols, potential warranted. Target Audience: Obstetricians & Gynecologists, Family Physicians Learning Objectives: After completion article, reader able recall common pregnancy, state there variety procedures, summarize conservative usually successful, explain when failure treatment.