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...

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...

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...

pre-eclampsia is a pregnancy-specific syndrome that may be dangerous especially to the fetus. different cytokines have been found to be elevated in women with pre-eclampsia and may have possible roles in the development of this disorder. alleles of the interleukin-l-beta (il-lβ) and tumor necrosis factor alpha (tnf-α) genes are associated with pr-eeclampsia in several studies in different popul...

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...

OBJECTIVE We hypothesised that among nulliparous women with pre-eclampsia, overweight or obese women would have a different phenotype of pre-eclampsia compared with normal weight women with pre-eclampsia. Specifically, they are more likely to develop term pre-eclampsia and less likely to have indicators of impaired placental perfusion, e.g. abnormal uterine artery Doppler or a small-for-gestati...

OBJECTIVE To assess the association of pre-eclampsia with later cardiovascular death in mothers according to their lifetime number of pregnancies, and particularly after only one child. DESIGN Prospective, population based cohort study. SETTING Medical Birth Registry of Norway. PARTICIPANTS We followed 836,147 Norwegian women with a first singleton birth between 1967 and 2002 for cardiova...