Feto-Maternal Microchimerism: The Pre-eclampsia Conundrum

Association Of Maternal Hypothyroidism With Pre-eclampsia

  Background and Objective: Hypertensive disorders complicating pregnancy are common and from one of the deadly triad, along with hemorrhage and infection that contribute greatly to prenatal and maternal morbidity and mortality in the developing countries. This study was designed to investigate the relationship between maternal hypothyroidism and pre-eclampsia. Materials and Methods: In a pro...

association of maternal hypothyroidism with pre-eclampsia

background and objective: hypertensive disorders complicating pregnancy are common and from one of the deadly triad, along with hemorrhage and infection that contribute greatly to prenatal and maternal morbidity and mortality in the developing countries. this study was designed to investigate the relationship between maternal hypothyroidism and pre-eclampsia. materials and methods: in a prospec...

Maternal deaths in the UK: pre-eclampsia deaths are avoidable.

582 www.thelancet.com Vol 389 February 11, 2017 Being pregnant in the UK has never been safer. The latest Confi dential Enquiries into Maternal Deaths and Morbidity reported that fewer than one in 10 000 women died in or around pregnancy in the UK during 2012–14 (241 women within the triennium), the lowest rate recorded since such surveillance began in 1952 in England and Wales. This maternal m...

Eclampsia Precedes Pre-Eclampsia

Eclampsia is an extremely severe form of preeclampsia characterized by the sudden onset of generalized tonic clonic seizures. It may occur quite abruptly, without any warning manifestations. This is a case report where Mrs.X was normotensive throughout her pregnancy who underwent emergency cesarean section for cephalo pelvic disproportion and threw generalized tonic clonic seizures on the first...

Pre-eclampsia: a maternal manifestation of a fetal adaptive response?