abstract the first time weinstein in 1982 described patients with the syndrome of hemolysis, elevated liver enzymes, and low platelet count (hellp) in pregnant preeclamptic and eclamptic patients. this syndrome is a severe form of preeclampsia or eclampsia. usually hellp syndrome occurs at the third trimester and only 15% occur before the 27th week of pregnancy and rarely before the 20th week o...

abstract background: obesity is an independent risk factor of preeclampsia with unknown mechanism and hyperlipidemia might be a probable case of it. objective: the objective of this study was to determine the role of hyper-triglyceridemi in association with high prepregnancy body mass index and the risk of preeclampsia. materials and methods: the authors conducted this case-control study of 42 ...

background and objective: hypertensive disorders complicating pregnancy are common and from one of the deadly triad, along with hemorrhage and infection that contribute greatly to prenatal and maternal morbidity and mortality in the developing countries. this study was designed to investigate the relationship between maternal hypothyroidism and pre-eclampsia. materials and methods: in a prospec...

background: lead toxicity is a prevalent health problem in both developed and developing countries. one of the proposed mechanisms for lead-induced organ damage is oxidative stress. oxidative stress is well-associated with the pregnancy disorder, pre-eclampsia. exposure to lead may be one of the sources of the oxidative stress that leads to development of pre-eclampsia in pregnant women. object...

background: pre-eclampsia, a vascular disorder of pregnancy, is a leading cause of maternal morbidity as well as perinatal morbidity and mortality. the cause of pre-eclampsia remains largely unknown. accumulating evidences from clinical and epidemiological studies suggest that diffuse endothelial dysfunction, resulting from oxidative stress, plays an important role in the pathogenesis of pre-ec...

objective: to examine association between maternal socio-cultural status, as indicated by maternal income, education and polygamy with severity of pre–eclampsia. materials and methods: this study was carried out in primary health centers in katsina, adamawa and borno states. a total of two groups of subjects were selected for the study, with 50 subjects in each group. group a - pregnant non hyp...

Pre-eclampsia and eclampsia are common obstetrical problem causing adverse effects on pregnancy outcome. Large bodies of evidences suggest that hyperhomocysteinemia is a causal factor of pre-eclampsia/eclampsia. This study designed to explore the association between hyperhomocysteinemia and pre-eclampsia/eclampsia, the knowledge of which expected to be used for prevention of pre-eclampsia and e...

Background Pre-eclampsia is one of the main causes of morbidity and mortality among pregnant women. This study was done with the objective of measuring abdominal aorta intima-media thickness, serum level of leptin, and lipid profile in neonates of pre-eclampsia mothers and comparing them with neonates of mothers without pre-eclampsia (control group). Materials and Methods Ninety neonates of pre...

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 ...