A retrospective case-control study was conducted to investigate the risk factors for pre-eclampsia - including the protective effect of placenta previa - at Medani Maternity Hospital, Sudan. Medical files of the patients during the period 2003-2010 were reviewed for age, parity, education level, prenatal care, placenta previa, and hemoglobin level. Women with pre-eclampsia were the cases, and w...

The aim of this study was to determine serum concentrations of vitamin E, C and A in pre-eclampsia and eclampsia patients, and to analyse their relationship with blood pressure. It was a cross-sectional case controlled study comprising forty-four pre-eclampsia, fifty eclampsia, and thirty-five normo-tensive pregnant women of singleton gestations in their third trimester from two hospitals in Dh...

OBJECTIVE To determine the risk factors for severe pre-eclampsia and eclampsia in Mulago Hospital, Kampala, Uganda. DESIGN A case control study. SETTING Mulago Hospital labour ward SUBJECT One hundread and fourty three women with severe pre-eclampsia/eclampsia and 500 women with normal delivery. RESULTS The predictors of severe pre-eclampsia/eclampsia were: low socio - economic status (...

BACKGROUND There is a large body of literature which assessed the incidence and risk factors of eclampsia, but little was done in assessing the association of clinical features and biological markers with prepartum and postpartum eclampsia. METHODS A total of 361 eclamptic women admitted to three teaching hospitals between 2008 and 2013 were included in this analysis. A comparative analysis w...

In Afghanistan, preeclampsia/eclampsia is the second leading cause of maternal deaths following maternal hemorrhage. This study aimed to describe clinical features, current treatments, and outcome among preeclampsia and eclampsia patients in the north region of Afghanistan. This was a retrospective study based on medical records of four center hospitals (one regional hospital and three provinci...

OBJECTIVE To determine whether outcomes differed for women with pre-eclampsia according to the presence of proteinuria and whether non-proteinuric pre-eclampsia is similar to gestational hypertension. DESIGN From 1987 to 2005, at three hospitals in Sydney, Australia, women referred to the obstetric medicine team were recruited. Outcomes for three groups were compared: proteinuric pre-eclampsi...

The pregnancy-specific condition pre-eclampsia not only affects the health of mother and baby during pregnancy but also has long-term consequences, increasing the chances of cardiovascular disease in later life. It is accepted that pre-eclampsia has a placental origin, but the pathogenic mechanisms leading to the systemic endothelial dysfunction characteristic of the disorder remain to be deter...

Task Force on Hypertension in Pregnancy. 122 5: 112231.Pre-eclampsia is a disorder of pregnancy in which there is high blood. 5 Management of pregnancy with pre-eclampsia. 8 Medical management of severe hypertension or severe pre-eclampsia in a critical care setting. 1 Classification of Hypertensive Disorders of Pregnancy. Pre-eclampsia complicates 2-3 of all pregnancies 5-7 in nulliparous wome...

Background Although recent studies have indicated the potential adverse effects of maternal bisphenol A (BPA) exposure on pregnancy such as increasing the risk of pre-eclampsia, epidemiological evidence is limited. We aimed to evaluate the relationship between maternal BPA exposure and the risk of pre-eclampsia. Methods We conducted a nested case-control study among 173 women (74 cases of pre...

In India meternal mortality in cases of severe pre-eclampsia and eclampsia continues to be high.[2]Management of these cases has always been a controversial subject. It has many aspects like control of convulsions, hypertension and obstetric management. Magnesium sulfate (MgS04) is one of the agents used as anticonvulsant all over the world. No maternal mortality has been reported by Pritchard ...