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  • Title: [Function of the kidneys and the renin-aldosterone system in women before and after use of intrauterine contraceptive devices].
    Author: Filatov VI, Volobuev AI, Kurbanova MKh, Mirfeĭzullaeva IaM, Kiseleva ZM.
    Journal: Akush Ginekol (Mosk); 1987 Sep; (9):17-20. PubMed ID: 3322076.
    Abstract:
    Conflicting opinions exist concerning the use of various birth control methods for women suffering from kidney diseases. Some researchers think kidney diseases are a contraindication for the use of IUD; since IUDs may cause inflammatory processes; others think that preventive therapy of extragenital diseases may make the use of IUD possible. The article studies the functional condition of the urinary system and various hormone levels (renin, aldosterone, vasopressin, cortisol) in women using an IUD. The selections of hormones was based on their role in regulating the water-salt exchange before disturbed in pathologic kidney patients. 43 women aged 19-30 were monitored before insertion and 6 months after insertion of an IUD. 20 women suffered from chronic pyelonephritis, 13 from a latent form of chronic glomerulonephritis; the control group consisted of 10 healthy women. All had previously borne children or had an induced abortion. Besides radioisotopic and radio-immunologic testing, such clinical indicators as bilirubin concentration, cholesterol, and urea in the blood, were determined. Some dependencies were found: for chronic pyelonephritis a positive correlation between the concentration of vasopressin and aldosterone, vasopressin and cortisol, and cortisol and the amount of leukocytes; for chronic glomerulonephritis, a positive correlation between aldosterone concentration and arterial pressure, cortisone level and amount of protein in the urine and concentration of vasopressin and amount of erythrocytes in the urine. The reaction of the kidneys to IUD-induced aseptic inflammatory processes in the uterus is more pronounced for healthy women and women suffering form chronic pyelonephritis, than for women with latent chronic glomerulonephritis, as demonstrated in the test by a reduction in cortisol concentration. The minor changes of the renal functions noticed in healthy and, to a somewhat larger degree, in women from chronic pyelonephritis do not constitute a contraindication for IUD usage and, for latent forms of chronic glomerulonephritis, the IUD is preferred. The functional condition of the kidneys of women suffering from chronic pyelonephritis who use an IUD should be tested by using dynamic scintigraphy.
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