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Dr. Marjorie Greenfield
Specializing in pregnancy and birth.
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Accuracy of Pregnancy Tests When One Has a Kidney Disease
QUESTION
Dear Dr. Greenfield,
I have been diagnosed with Berger’s disease, which affects the kidneys. If I decide to take a pregnancy test could it give a false reading?

— Concerned Mom in Troy, Virginia

ANSWER
May 23, 2001
Dear Concerned Mom,
The pregnancy tests that are currently available, including home pregnancy tests are amazingly accurate in all sorts of situations. Even in cases of kidney disease where blood or protein enters the urine, a negative test is certainly negative, and a positive test would be expected to be real.

So you can trust your test, and test to your heart's content. Good luck!

— by Marjorie Greenfield, M.D.

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