the comparison of total and ionised serum calcium level in preeclamptic pregnant women and the women with normal pregnancy   z. salari md1*, n. eftekhari md2     1- assistan professor, dept of gynecology, university of medical sciences, kerman, iran 2- associated professor, dept of gynecology, university of medical sciences, kerman, iran     background: preeclampsia remains one of the important...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES The use of reduced intrathecal doses is advised for spinal anesthesia during cesarean delivery. However, there are inadequate data regarding the minimum effective dose of intrathecal bupivacaine for cesarean delivery. Preeclampsia is caused by an endothelial dysfunction leading to generalized vasoconstriction. Whether this can offset the pregnancy-induced decrease in i...

The relationship between preeclampsia and the renin-angiotensin system (RAS) is poorly understood. Angiotensin I-converting enzyme (ACE) is a key RAS component and plays an important role in blood pressure homeostasis by generating angiotensin II (Ang II) and inactivating the vasodilator angiotensin-(1-7) (Ang-(1-7)). ACE (I/D) polymorphism is characterized by the insertion (I) or deletion (D) ...

Preeclampsia is a serious complication of pregnancy, which affects 2-8% of all pregnancies and is one of the leading causes of maternal and perinatal mortality and morbidity worldwide. To better understand the molecular mechanisms involved in pathological development of placenta in preeclampsia, we used high-resolution LC-MS/MS technologies to construct a comparative N-glycoproteomic and phosph...

Introduction and Aim: Pregnancy is complicated by the hypertension disease known as pre-eclampsia. The development of to a level 140/90 mmHg or greater in presence proteinuria after 20th week gestation characterises this condition, multisystem disorder with an unclear cause. Uric acid microalbuminuria were assessed preeclamptic women (PW) normal pregnant (NPW). Materials Methods: For present st...

Previous work from our laboratory using heart rate variability (HRV) has demonstrated that women before menopause have a more dominant parasympathetic and less effective sympathetic regulations of heart rate compared with men. Because it is still not clear whether normal or preeclamptic pregnancy coincides with alternations in the autonomic functions, we evaluated the changes of HRV in 17 nonpr...

Preeclampsia is a pregnancy-specific syndrome, defined by such clinical hallmarks as the onset of maternal hypertension and proteinuria after 20 weeks of gestation. The syndrome is also characterized by impaired blood flow through the utero-placental circulation and relative placental ischemia, which in turn, may generate feto-placental endothelial dysfunction. Endothelial dysfunction in offspr...

The pregnant female human angiotensinogen (hAGN) transgenic rat mated with the male hrenin (hREN) transgenic rat is a model of preeclampsia with increased blood pressure, proteinuria, and placenta alterations of edema and necrosis. The reverse mating of female hRENxmale hAGN does not show preeclamptic features. Because the placenta is well-recognized to be a key contributor to the preeclamptic ...