BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Studies of the impact of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) and its pregnancy complications have yielded conflicting results. Major limitations of these studies relate to their small numbers of patients and retrospective designs. The aim of this study was to perform a systematic literature review of pregnancy outcomes in women with SLE and a meta-analysis of the associ...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Hypertensive disorder in pregnancy is the significant disease that badly affects the maternal and fetal prognosis and lead to higher mortality and morbidity in the prenatal period. Visfatin, potentially a new adipokine has emerged having high contribution in pathogenesis of pre-eclampsia. The objective of the study was to find the level of Visfatin in pregnancy induced...

1. Mean arterial pressure, heart rate, cardiac output (dye-dilution technique), stroke volume, total peripheral resistance (TPR), utero-placental blood supply (microsphere technique) and foetal weights were determined 2 days before expected birth in normotensive control (NC) rats, spontaneously hypertensive (SH) rats, rats with short-standing renal hypertension induced early in pregnancy and ra...

Background: During early pregnancy raised beta human chorionic gonadotropin (β-HCG) level occurs during placental development. It may be used for identifying the induced hypertension. There are certain factors that causes hypertension and preeclampsia. However, many of associated specific cause is not known. Some common risk preeclampsia nulliparity, in a previous pregnancy, family history, his...