A 23-year-old pregnant female presented with fever and diarrhea during the sixth month of gestation. The patient was diagnosed with acute promyelocytic leukemia (APL) at 26 weeks gestation and was treated with all-trans retinoic acid (ATRA) at an initial dose of 45 mg/m2/day, which was reduced to 25 mg/m2/day 14 days later. The patient experienced chest distress, polypnea, hypertension, general...

Background: Pregnancy-induced1hypertension (PIH) is the main cause of1maternal & perinatal mortality and can also lead to long-term health problems. It complicates 10% of all pregnancies globally, with pre-eclampsia eclampsia being leading causes maternal mortality. Objective: To find frequency pregnancy induced hypertension among pregnant women Delivering in a Tertiary Care Hospital. Study...

Previous workers have emphasized the possibility that pregnancy-induced hypertension (PIH) is associated with a change of sexual partner. It is noted here that any such association is far weaker than that between PIH and fecundability (the probability of conceiving in a month at risk). This latter association is so strong as to suggest its closeness to a true cause. Of the determinants of fecun...

P regnancy-induced hypertension is characterized by hypertension, proteinuria, edema, and, at times, abnormalities of the coagulation system and liver function. Reduced placental blood flow is a hallmark of the condition, and by definition, the blood pressure returns to normal after delivery. It occurs in 5 to 10% of all pregnancies, primarily in primigravidas after the 20th week of gestation. ...

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The authors have already reported that the bone density of normal pregnant women might be kept at the same density as in normal non-pregnant women. However, it might be decreased in women with pregnancy induced hypertension (PIH) by estimating serum calcium levels, serum levels of calcium regulating hormones and calcium secretion into the urine. In order to demonstrate this theory, the degree o...

Background: Pregnancy-induced hypertension (PIH) is the most common medical disorder of pregnancy contributing significantly to maternal/fetal morbidity and mortality. Hemostatic abnormalities that range from thrombocytopenia, consumption coagulopathy to hemolysis, elevated liver enzymes, and low platelets (HELLP) are the most ominous complications seen. This study was taken to evaluate the nat...

Hypertensive disorders are one of the most common medical complications of pregnancy and a major cause of both maternal and fetal morbidity and mortalityand are one of the leading causes of maternal deaths.1-4 They can cause several dreaded complications such as eclampsia, disseminated intravascular coagulation, cerebral edema, liver failure and ante-partum hemorrhage. Maternal hypertension als...

This is a unique case of hyperreactio luteinalis associated with partial HELLP syndrome, chronic superimposed hypertension, and intrauterine growth restriction. The cysts were managed conservatively. A caesarean section was performed at 34 weeks due to the deterioration of liver function tests, and intrauterine growth restriction. Multiple tissue biopsies of the ovaries were taken which showed ...