0 a condition in which a pregnant woman or a woman who has just given birth has high blood pressure, swelling of parts of the body, and too much protein in the urine --
These are the classic findings of the renal lesion of preeclampsia.
The incidence of preeclampsia is between 5 and 10% of pregnancies and there is no evidence that this has changed appreciably during the last century.
We hypothesized that, prior to a first pregnancy, there is a relationship of heightened platelet activation to low plasma volume, both findings observed in preeclampsia.
They concluded therefore that this was a useful screening tool for pregnancy induced hypertension and preeclampsia.
Echocardiographic left ventricular mass to differentiate chronic hypertension from preeclampsia during pregnancy.
When these physiologic events are superimposed on a specific prepregnancy phenotype, preeclampsia results.
Thus, inflammation and oxidative stress might act synergistically to induce vascular dysfunction in preeclampsia.
Therefore, understanding placentation and the unique primate features may be key to understanding preeclampsia.
