Preeclampsia is the most common hypertensive disease of pregnancy, affecting 5-8% of pregnancies (Saftlas et al., 1990) and accounting for nearly 18% of maternal deaths (ACOG, 2002) in the United States. Little change has been noted in the incidence of this disease in the United States during the national data-collection periods of 19931997 and 2001-2005 (Berg et al., 2009). Preeclampsia is als...

Preeclampsia is a major contributor to the maternal and neonatal mortality and morbidity.1,2 It is the 2nd largest cause of maternal mortality worldwide and affects 5% to 7% of pregnant women worldwide.3,4 The precise etiopathogenesis of preeclampsia remains to be a subject of extensive research, but it is believed that it is likely to be multifactorial. Nevertheless, it is accepted that it is ...

Postpartum hypertension can be related to persistence of gestational hypertension, preeclampsia, or preexisting chronic hypertension, or it could develop de novo postpartum secondary to other causes. There are limited data describing the etiology, differential diagnosis, and management of postpartum hypertension-preeclampsia. The differential diagnosis is extensive, and varies from benign (mild...

BACKGROUND Preeclampsia is a disorder of pregnancy without any specific reasons that characterized by high blood pressure and large amounts of protein in the urine. This disorder is caused by multiple factors and finding any factor related to this disorder can help on time prevention of this disease. OBJECTIVE In this study, serum levels of calcium (Ca), magnesium (Mg) and zinc (Zn) were eval...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the relation between nephrin levels and preeclampsia severity by comparing serum and urine levels of nephrin in the severe and mild groups according to severity of associated intrauterine growth retardation (IUGR) development. METHODS A total of 150 patients who attended our ante-natal clinic (ANC) were included in this study. We had 5 groups; Group 1:30 patients with mi...

PURPOSE To describe the risk of early- and late-onset preeclampsia across pregnancies exposed to antidepressants and to evaluate the impact of timing and length of gestational exposure to antidepressants, particularly selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs), on preeclampsia. METHODS The Norwegian Mother and Child Cohort, a prospective population-based study, and the Medical Birth Regi...

OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to investigate whether massive proteinuria in preeclampsia is associated with maternal and fetal complications. METHODS We retrospectively analyzed the clinical records of 233 patients who were diagnosed with preeclampsia. We divided the preeclamptic patients into three groups based on the amount of proteinuria: massive (≥5 g/24 hr), moderate (2 to 5 g/24 h...

BACKGROUND Adequate analgesia following caesarean section decreases morbidity, hastens ambulation, improves patient outcome and facilitates care of the newborn. Intrathecal magnesium, an NMDA antagonist, has been shown to prolong analgesia without significant side effects in healthy parturients. We therefore studied the effect of adding intrathecal magnesium sulphate to bupivacaine-fentanyl spi...