Complications of (pre)eclampsia may involve multiple systems and organs. Neurological symptoms may occur. Visual symptoms concern up to 25% the of patients with severe preeclampsia and 50% of the patients with eclampsia. An uncommon effect of severe preeclampsia is sudden blindness. Blindness may be part of a clinical and radiological presentation named Posterior Reversible Encephalopathy Syndr...

Preeclampsia and eclampsia are types of gestational hypertension that considered causes maternal perinatal death. in severe conditions will result accompanied by symptoms seizures or decreased consciousness. In the condition preeclampsia, antihypertensive therapy is needed. The use antihypertensives patients with Eclampsia, namely methyldopa labetalol, first line, hydralazine, nifedipine, prazo...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the effect of pre-natal supplementation of antioxidant Lycopene in prevention of pre-eclampsia in the high risk pregnant women. We also assessed the effect of lycopene supplementation on intra-uterine growth restriction and the perinatal outcome in women at high risk of developing pre-eclampsia. MATERIALS AND METHODS A total of 54 women between 14-28 weeks of pregnancy w...

CONTEXT AND OBJECTIVE Pre-eclampsia is a disorder that occurs only during pregnancy. Postpartum changes relating to lipid metabolism may contribute towards the endothelial lesions observed in preeclampsia. Thus, the aim of the present study was to evaluate the lipid profile among patients who present preeclampsia and correlate these parameters with 24-hour proteinuria. DESIGN AND SETTING Cros...

Objectives: To study the role of β – hCG in pathogenesis of preeclampsia and its association with severity of preeclampsia. Materials and Methods: The prospective randomized study was conducted on 500 pregnant women of gestational pregnancy between 12 24 weeks with singleton pregnancy. According to American college of obstetrics and gynecology [ACOG, 2013], patients were classified into three g...

Background: Pre-eclampsia is a syndrome of immune system pregnant females, which causes severe obstetrical complications. Low serum level 25-hydroxyvitamin-D common during pregnancy complicated with preeclampsia but local evidence missing. Aim: To determine the association pre-eclampsia decreased vitamin- D levels two phases gestation (after 20 weeks) over period six months. Study design: Cohor...

OBJECTIVE Eclampsia is a poorly understood but potentially fatal complication of pregnancy. Research to date on this disorder has been hampered by the lack of a suitable animal model. To correct this deficiency, this report describes the generation of a rat eclampsia-like model using pentylenetetrazol (PTZ) in a previously established rat preeclampsia model. METHOD Rats were administered lipo...

background: preeclampsia is a pregnancy multisystem disorder of unknown etiology. it is a significant cause of maternal and fetal morbidity and mortality. objectives: due to the significant role of magnesium in physiological regulation of blood pressure, this study was conducted to measure the level of magnesium in pre-eclampsia and control groups since the beginning of the pregnancy. materials...

BACKGROUND Hypertensive disorders of pregnancy are a major cause of morbidity and mortality. The objective was to estimate the disease burden attributable to hypertensive disorders of pregnancy in two referral hospitals in Uganda. METHODS Through a prospective cohort study conducted in Jinja and Mulago hospitals in Uganda from March 1, 2013 and February 28, 2014, hypertension-related cases we...