Pre-eclampsia and Cardiovascular Disease: From Pregnancy to Postpartum

SPOTLIGHT REVIEW Pre-eclampsia and cardiovascular disease

Heart disease is the leading cause of death in women in all countries. A history of pre-eclampsia, one of the most deadly hypertensive complicationsofpregnancy, increases cardiovascular riskby two to four times, which is comparablewith the risk induced bysmoking. Substantial epidemiological data reveal that pregnancy-related hypertensive complications are associated with a predisposition to chr...

Pre eclampsia and eclampsia during pregnancy pdf

Task Force on Hypertension in Pregnancy. 122 5: 112231.Pre-eclampsia is a disorder of pregnancy in which there is high blood. 5 Management of pregnancy with pre-eclampsia. 8 Medical management of severe hypertension or severe pre-eclampsia in a critical care setting. 1 Classification of Hypertensive Disorders of Pregnancy. Pre-eclampsia complicates 2-3 of all pregnancies 5-7 in nulliparous wome...

Choroidal changes in pre-eclampsia during pregnancy and the postpartum period: comparison with healthy pregnancy.

PURPOSE To investigate subfoveal choroidal thickness (SFCT) in patients with pre-eclampsia using enhanced depth imaging optical coherence tomography (EDI-OCT). METHODS A sample of 73 pregnant women was studied over 28 weeks of gestation. The sample was divided into two groups: one comprising pre-eclamptic pregnant women (n=32), and the other comprising healthy pregnant women (n=41). The SFCT ...

Calreticulin in human pregnancy and pre-eclampsia.

Pre-eclampsia is a disorder of human pregnancy that involves pregnancy-induced maternal hypertension and proteinuria. Evidence indicates that pre-eclampsia involves widespread activation of maternal endothelial cells. Calreticulin is a ubiquitously expressed, multi-functional protein that has been shown to have both pro- and anti-inflammatory effects on cultured endothelial cells in vitro and i...

Pre-eclampsia and hypertension in pregnancy.