Pre-eclampsia/Eclampsia

• Main Authors: José Carlos Peraçoli (Author), Vera Therezinha Medeiros Borges (Author), José Geraldo Lopes Ramos (Author), Ricardo de Carvalho Cavalli (Author), Sérgio Hofmeister de Almeida Martins Costa (Author), Leandro Gustavo de Oliveira (Author), Francisco Lazaro Pereira de Souza (Author), Henri Augusto Korkes (Author), Ione Rodrigues Brum (Author), Maria Laura Costa do Nascimento (Author), Mário Dias Corrêa Junior (Author), Nelson Sass (Author), Angélica Lemos Debs Diniz (Author), Edson Viera da Cunha Filho (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Federação Brasileira das Sociedades de Ginecologia e Obstetrícia.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Pre-eclampsia is a multifactorial and multisystemic disease specific to gestation. It is classically diagnosed by the presence of hypertension associated with proteinuria manifested in a previously normotensive pregnant woman after the 20th week of gestation. Pre-eclampsia is also considere...