this survey assessed predisposing factors of preeclampsia and eclampsia in persons referring to governmental hospitals of hormozgan province. samples of this study were pregnant women who had preeclampsia and eclampsia and also pregnant women who had not preeclampsia and eclampsia (control group) referring to governmental hospitals of hormozgan province from september 1994 to february 1995. all...

Introduction: Pre-eclampsia is one of the complexities of maternal and neonatal health. There are several similarities between pre-eclampsia and atherosclerosis. The relation between chronic Chlamydia pneumoniae infections with atherosclerosis has been shown previously. This study has been done to determine the connection between pathogenesis and onset time of pre-eclampsia and chronic Chlamydi...

OBJECTIVE To investigate whether pre-eclampsia is more common in first pregnancies solely because fewer affected women, who presumably have a higher risk of recurrence, go on to have subsequent pregnancies. DESIGN Prospective cohort study. SETTING Swedish Medical Birth Register. PARTICIPANTS 763 795 primiparous mothers who had their first births in Sweden, 1987-2004. MAIN OUTCOME MEASUR...

BACKGROUND Eclampsia and pre-eclampsia are well-recognized causes of maternal and neonatal mortality in low income countries, but are never studied in a district hospital. In order to get reliable data to facilitate the hospital's obstetric audit a retrospective medical record study was performed in Ndala Hospital, Tanzania. METHODS All patients diagnosed with severe pre-eclampsia or eclampsi...

The study focused on the Perceived impacts of pre-eclampsia and eclampsia health pregnant women attending Federal Teaching Hospital Ido-Ekiti, ekiti state. It assessed knowledge mothers impact Pre-eclampsia pregnancy, it also identified factors responsible for prevalence among mothers. Furthermore, assesses level perception eclampsia. relationship between education pre-eclampsia, as well percei...

OBJECTIVE To assess the maternal disease burden due to pre-eclampsia/eclampsia in Ethiopia and the national health system's readiness to respond to the needs of women with pre-eclampsia/eclampsia. METHODS The national emergency obstetric and newborn care (EmONC) assessment entailed collecting information from 112 hospitals and 685 health centers in Ethiopia, focusing on their infrastructure, ...

BACKGROUND Criteria-based audits have been used to improve clinical management in developed countries, but have only recently been introduced in the developing world. This study discusses the introduction of a criteria-based audit in a tertiary hospital in an African setting, assesses the quality of care among eclampsia patients and discusses possible interventions in order to improve the quali...

thrombophilia is a pathological state of increased blood coagulability. it causes problems during pregnancy including preeclampsia, stillbirth, repeated abortions, and detached pair. out of the most prevalent factors causing inherited thrombophilia, protein s (prs), protein c (prc), and antithrombin iii (atiii) deficiency, and factor v leiden (fvl) mutation could be mentioned. this study aimed ...

OBJECTIVE To investigate whether severe and recurrent pre-eclampsia increase the risk for long-term maternal atherosclerotic disease. STUDY DESIGN A population-based study compared the incidence of long-term atherosclerotic morbidity in a cohort of women who delivered in the years 1988-2012. The exposure variable was pre-eclampsia. Mean follow-up duration was 11.2 years. Kaplan-Meier survival...