Pre-eclampsia

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One in five women with history of pre eclampsia or eclampsia had features suggestive of PPD. The magnitude of PPD increases with the severity of the disease condition. Women who were young, single with lower level of education or having perinatal death had higher risk of postpartum depression. Also those women who lacked family support and had experienced stressful event during pregnancy. To prevent morbidity due to PPD, pregnant women with pre eclampsia and eclampsia should be screened for this…

Pre-eclampsia presents after 20 weeks’ gestation as hypertension with proteinuria, effecting multiple systems, whilst superimposed pre-eclampsia is the development of systemic features of pre-eclampsia in a woman with chronic hypertension (AHMAC, 2014; Robson et al., 2014). Women should be advised to seek medical advice if experiencing headache, visual disturbance, epigastric pain, vomiting and/ or oedema of the face, hands or feet (AHMAC, 2014). A diagnosis of pre-eclampsia requires referral…

relation to medicalization and the biomedical model, women die from childbirth and pregnancy complications such as infections, pre-eclampsia, hemorrhage, eclampsia which are preventable with surveillance and monitoring (WHO, 2014). Pre-eclampsia is characterized by high blood pressure and proteinuria during pregnancy, which then if not treated can lead to eclampsia. Eclampsia can result in nausea, vomiting, seizures, and coma for the mother. Hemorrhage is the excessive bleeding that can occur…

may protect women from migraine attacks. While migraine seems to disappear during pregnancy, some women surprisingly develop migraines during this period even if they never experienced it before. For some women who have already experienced migraine pre-pregnancy, they may notice a difference in frequency and intensity of attacks and its accompanying symptoms. While migraines may seem to be just a headache, recent studies suggest that migraines during pregnancy may be linked to serious…

technologies have their own hazards, so do with multiple gestations. Multiple gestations are at higher risk of maternal complications. Walker et al 2004 [1] studied more than 44,000 multiple gestations and found that compared to singleton, risks for pre-Eclampsia, postpartum haemorrhage and maternal death increased by two fold. Moreover, chances of…

Gestational hypertension, mild pre-eclampsia, severe pre-eclampsia and eclampsia are four types of PIH. PIH is diagnosed when blood pressure reading are higher than 140/90 mmHg in a female who had normal blood pressure prior to 20 weeks. Increased blood pressure, rapid weight gain, oedema, blurred vision, nausea and vomiting are common symptoms of pregnancy-induced hypertension. The pathophysiology of gestational hypertension is unknown, and yet some risk factors such as pre-existing…

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critical developmental period, specifically during the first trimester (Sigelman 96). Due to the negative effects that stress can have on a fetus during prenatal development, an impact can also be made on future child development. Low birth weight and pre-term labor are directly related to decreased motor skills, slower cognitive development and poor sleep patterns (Talge 246). Stress during the first trimester has also shown to have a relation to adult schizophrenia (Sigelman 112). While there…

of uric acid, xanthine is the first indicator of an abnormal purine profile and can serve as a marker of many diseases including hyperuricemia[3], gout[4], xanthinuria[5], perinatal asphyxia[6], cerebral ischemia[7], tumor hyperthermia[8] and pre-eclampsia[9]. Uric acid is typically present at serum concentrations of ∼200−400 μM and is by far the dominant purine of this class in biological fluids [10-15]. Hypoxanthine is the precursor to xanthine and is typically present at plasma concentrations…