Studies on Metabolism of Calcium, Inorganic Phosphorus and Cholesterol in Pre-Eclamptic Toxaemias of Pregnancy

Pre-eclamptic toxaemia is by far the most common manifestation of pregnancy toxamria ln the late months of pregnancy. It is this late aPpearance in pregnancy which really distinguishes it clinically from other varities of toxemia in pregnancy e.g. essential hypertension a^d chronic glomerular nephritis in association with pregnancy, for in these latter conditions the symptoms and signs are nearly always present before pregnancy begins and during the early part of pregnancy. The pre-eclamptic toxaemia is characterised chiefly by a rise in blood pressure, oedema and albumin in the urine. The clinical course and the severity of the toxaemia vary widely and in the more severer cases, the onset of convulsions and/or coma supervene (eclampsia).