Evaluation of Platelets Count and Indices in Pre-Eclampsia Compared to Normal Pregnancies

Histomorphometry of Umbilical Cord and its Vessels in Pre- Eclampsia as Compared to Normal Pregnancies

Pre-eclampsia/eclampsia in twin pregnancies.

A study of 1045 twin gestations with regard to known or likely zygosity and the incidence of pre-eclampsia/eclampsia failed to reveal differences between known dizygous twins and like-sex 'presumed' and 'estimated' monozygous twins except in the 'estimated' data for multigravidae. There was a threefold increase in the incidence for twins as opposed to singleton pregnancies. These results are di...

Pre-eclampsia in pregnancies by different fathers: immunological studies.

Immunological studies were performed on a woman with severe pre-eclamptic toxaemia in a second pregnancy. This pregnancy followed a normal twin pregnancy by a different father four years earlier. Both fathers were also studied. In the mixed lymphocyte culture the patient's lymphocytes reacted eight times as strongly against father 2's cells as against those from father 1. If studies along these...

Soluble CD30 in Normal Pregnancy Pre-Eclampsia and Recurrent Pregnancy Loss

Background: Normal pregnancy is thought to be dependent on Th2 deviation, while Recurrent Pregnancy Loss (RPL) and Pre-eclampsia (PE) appear to be biased toward the Th1 immune response. It is believed that the soluble form of CD30 (sCD30) is an index of Th2 immune response or modulator of Th1/Th2 responses. Objective: The aim of this study was determination of the sCD30 level in RPL and PE pati...

A longitudinal study of resting peripheral blood flow in normal pregnancy and pregnancies complicated by chronic hypertension and pre-eclampsia.

OBJECTIVES To investigate the hypothesis that reduced resting tissue blood flow precedes the clinical onset of pre-eclampsia in women at risk of the disease. METHODS We used venous occlusion plethysmography to compare resting calf muscle blood flow in 18 normal pregnant controls, 18 pregnant women with chronic hypertension, and 23 pregnant women at increased risk of developing pre-eclampsia. ...