Table 5 Clinical details of 10 non-pregnant dialysis patients with hCG concentrations > 5 mIU/ml and two pregnant dialysis patients
From: Exclusion of pregnancy in dialysis patients: diagnostic performance of human chorionic gonadotropin
Patient No. | Age categories (years) | BMI categories (kg/m2) | PD or HD | ESRD vintage (years) | Pregnancies (count) | Live births (count) | Current menstrual cycle (y/n/u/i) | Cycle day of blood sampling | hCG (mIU/ml) | LH (mIU/ml) | FSH (mIU/ml) | AMH (ng/ml) | No, functional, pre-, or true menopause (N, F, P, T) | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Non-pregnant dialysis patients | ||||||||||||||
 1 | 45.0–50.0 | 18.5–24.9 | HD | 23.1 | 5 | 3 | n | – | 6.00 | 83.4 | 142 | < 0.08a | T | Infertile, elevated FSHb |
 2 | 45.0–50.0 | 18.5–24.9 | HD | 2.30 | 11 | 8 | n | – | 6.00 | 187 | 172 | < 0.08a | T | Infertile, elevated FSH |
 3 | 45.0–50.0 | 18.5–24.9 | HD | 0.13 | 1 | 1 | n | – | 21.0 | 125 | 58.3 | < 0.08a | T | Infertile, elevated FSH |
 4 | 45.0–50.0 | < 18.5 | HD | 1.53 | 0 | 0 | n | – | 24.0 | < 0.10 | 1.00 | < 0.08a | T | Infertilec |
 5 | 45.0–50.0 | < 18.5 | HD | 2.27 | 0 | 0 | n | – | 25.0 | > 200 | > 200 | < 0.08a | T | Infertile, elevated FSHb |
 6 | 20.0–24.9 | 18.5–24.9 | HD | 19.6 | 0 | 0 | r | u | 7.00 | 1.30 | 3.10 | 3.89a | N | Potentially fertile, high prolactin, hCG decreased at follow-up |
 7 | 20.0–24.9 | 18.5–24.9 | HD | 0.97 | 0 | 0 | r | 1 | 9.80 | 4.60 | 65.2 | < 0.08a | P | Infertile, elevated FSH |
 8 | 45.0–50.0 | 25.0–29.9 | HD | 25.1 | 1 | 1 | n | – | 7.90 | 116 | 105.8 | 0.01 | T | Infertile, elevated FSH |
 9 | 45.0–50.0 | < 18.5 | HD | 1.10 | 0 | 0 | n | – | 7.00 | < 0.10 | 0.90 | 0.10 | T | Infertilec |
 10 | 45.0–50.0 | ≥30 | HD | 1.63 | 1 | 1 | n | – | 15.0 | 82.3 | 69.7 | 0.01 | T | Infertile, elevated FSHb |
Pregnant dialysis patients | Â | Â | Â | Â | Â | Â | Â | Â | Â | Â | Â | Â | Â | Â |
11 | 25.0–29.9 | ≥30 | HD | 0.16 | 4 | 3 | – | – | 53454d | < 0.10 | < 0.10 | 3.64 | N | Fertile, delivery of a healthy child |
12 | 45.0–50.0 | 25.0–29.9 | HD | 2.08 | 10 | 2 | – | – | 58.0e | 13.7 | 17.1 | 0.05 | N | Fertile, missed abortion (1st trimester) |