Complications of Preeclampsia
Complications list for Preeclampsia:
The list of complications that have been mentioned in various sources
for Preeclampsia includes:
See also the symptoms of Preeclampsia and Preeclampsia: Introduction.
Complications and sequelae of Preeclampsia from the Diseases Database include:
Source: Diseases Database
See also the symptoms of Preeclampsia and Preeclampsia: Introduction.
Complications of Preeclampsia:
High Blood Pressure in Pregnancy: NHLBI (Excerpt)
The
effects of high blood pressure during pregnancy vary depending on the disorder
and other factors. According to the National High Blood Pressure Education
Program (NHBPEP), preeclampsia does not in general increase a woman's risk for
developing chronic hypertension or other heart-related problems. The NHBPEP also
reports that in women with normal blood pressure who develop preeclampsia after
the 20th week of their first pregnancy, short-term complications--including
increased blood pressure--usually go away within about 6 weeks after
delivery. (Source: excerpt from High Blood Pressure in Pregnancy: NHLBI)
REPORT of the WORKING GROUP on RESEARCH on HYPERTENSION DURING PREGNANCY: NHLBI (Excerpt)
Maternal complications acutely can include pulmonary edema, thrombotic
complications, renal failure, and death. Preeclampsia can evolve into eclampsia,
leading to maternal seizures. One specific subset of signs and symptoms known as
the HELLP Syndrome (Hemolysis, Elevated Liver Enzymes, and
Low Platelets) is a cause of extensive morbidity. In the United
States, hypertensive disorders of pregnancy account for nearly 15 percent of
maternal mortality; throughout the world these conditions are responsible for
more than a third of maternal deaths. The vast majority of these deaths and most
infant deaths are due to preeclampsia and eclampsia, arising either de
novo or superimposed on chronic hypertension. Long-term sequelae may also
result. Women with chronic hypertension have an obvious long-term risk from the
persistent hypertension. However, women with preeclampsia, despite the
resolution of the disorder postpartum, are also at increased risk of
cardiovascular disease in later life compared to women with pregnancies without
preeclampsia.
(Source: excerpt from REPORT of the WORKING GROUP on RESEARCH on HYPERTENSION DURING PREGNANCY: NHLBI)
REPORT of the WORKING GROUP on RESEARCH on HYPERTENSION DURING PREGNANCY: NHLBI (Excerpt)
Fetal complications of hypertensive disorders of pregnancy include growth
restriction, prematurity, and stillbirth. In addition, there is evidence that
the intrauterine milieu in a hypertensive pregnancy may, by mechanisms related
to the failure of the fetus to exercise full growth potential, confer increased
risk of cardiovascular events in adult life.
(Source: excerpt from REPORT of the WORKING GROUP on RESEARCH on HYPERTENSION DURING PREGNANCY: NHLBI)
REPORT of the WORKING GROUP on RESEARCH on HYPERTENSION DURING PREGNANCY: NHLBI (Excerpt)
Women
with preeclampsia are at increased risk of cardiovascular disease compared to
women who have pregnancies without preeclampsia. Epidemiological studies
indicate that this likely is the result of common risk factors for preeclampsia
and cardiovascular disease rather than preeclampsia causing cardiovascular
disease. Most of the risk factors for preeclampsia (e.g., race, dyslipidemia,
obesity, diabetes, hypertension, and elevated homocysteine) are also risk
factors for cardiovascular disease. Likewise, many of the pathophysiological
features of preeclampsia (e.g., dyslipidemia, inflammatory and endothelial
activation, insulin resistance) are features of cardiovascular disease. There is
increasing evidence that women who have recovered from preeclamptic pregnancies
manifest cardiovascular and metabolic differences compared to women who have had
normal pregnancies. It is possible that the normal changes of pregnancy
sensitize certain women to insults that would require years to manifest effects
in the absence of pregnancy.
The long-term implications of preeclampsia for the offspring is another area
about which little is known. Preeclampsia is associated with an increased risk
of fetal growth retardation, but many children born to women with preeclampsia
are appropriate for gestational age, and still others are large for gestational
age. It is possible that the long-range outcome of even the growth restricted
infants of preeclamptic infants is not the same as that of the usual
growth-restricted infant.
(Source: excerpt from REPORT of the WORKING GROUP on RESEARCH on HYPERTENSION DURING PREGNANCY: NHLBI)
You may also want to research other symptoms
in our Symptoms Center.
About complications:
Complications of Preeclampsia are secondary conditions, symptoms, or other disorders that are
caused by Preeclampsia.
In many cases the distinction between symptoms of Preeclampsia and complications
of Preeclampsia is unclear
or arbitrary.
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