Glossary for Preeclampsia

• Abruptio Placentae: Placental bleeding usually late in a pregnancy.
• Acute fatty liver of pregnancy: A rare complication of pregnancy that can occur in the second half of the pregnancy. It is characterized by excessive fatty deposits in the liver which can be fatal without prompt diagnosis and treatment which involves delivering the baby as soon as possible.
• Birth symptoms: Symptoms related to childbirth.
• Blood conditions: Conditions that affect the blood
• Blood vessel conditions: Conditions that affect the blood vessels
• Caesarian Section: Surgery to deliver a fetus from the uterus.
• Cerebrovascular accident: Occurs when the blood supply to the brain is interrupted and results in cell injury and death.
• Chronic Kidney Disease: Long-term and generally irreversible disease of the kidneys due to infection, obstruction, congenital diseases or generalised diseases causing failure of the kidneys' normal functions.
• Convulsions: Involuntary spasms especially those affecting the full body
• Diabetes: Failing or reduced ability of the body to handle sugars.
• Eclampsia: Fits (seizures) from severe high blood pressure in pregnant women.
• Face swelling: Swelling affecting the face
• Fetal Growth Retardation: Impaired growth of the fetus due to any cause. Causes include maternal cyanotic heart disease, chronic maternal hypertension, placental abnormalities and multiple births.
• Fluid retention: Fluid retention in tissues
• Foot swelling: Swelling of one or both feet
• Hand swelling: Swelling of one or both hands
• Headache: Pain that is located in the head
• Hemolytic uremic syndrome: A rare condition characterized by acute kidney failure, hemolytic anemia and thrombocytopenia (reduced blood platelet count). The condition is often caused by upper respiratory infections or infectious diarrhea.
• Hepatocellular jaundice: A condition which is characterized by jaundice due to injury or damage to the hepatocellular cells of the liver
• High blood pressure: High blood pressure
• Hypertension: High blood pressure
• Intrauterine Growth Retardation: Slowly growing fetus in the womb during pregnancy
• Kidney damage: Any damage that occurs to the kidneys
• Kidney failure: Total failure of the kidneys to filter waste
• Lipodystrophy, familial partial, type 3 (FPLD3): A rare metabolic disorder involving abnormal fat gradually disappears from the limbs, trunk and buttocks but stays the same or accumulates on areas such as the face, shoulders, neck and genitals.
• Low birth weight: When the weight of a new born baby is below average
• Oligohydramnios: A deficiency in the amount of amniotic fluid in the gestational sac during pregnancy
• Persistent headache: The occurrence of a persistent headache
• Pheochromocytoma: Pheochromocytoma is a neuroendocrine tumor of the medulla of the adrenal glands (originating in the chromaffin cells), or extra-adrenal chromaffin tissue that failed to involute after birth and secretes excessive amounts of catecholamines, usually epinephrine and norepinephrine.
• Preeclampsia: High blood pressure problems in second half of pregnancy.
• Pregnancy symptoms: Symptoms related to pregnancy.
• Premature Birth: Early delivery of a fetus (before 37th week).
• Proteinuria: Protein in the urine
• Stillbirth: Where a woman delivers a child who is dead
• Stroke: Serious brain event from bleeding or blood clots.
• Swelling symptoms: Symptoms causing swelling or enlargement.
• Thrombocytopenia: Decreased platelets in the blood
• Thrombocytopenic purpura, autoimmune: A rare blood disorder where a low number of platelets impairs the bloods ability to clot and results in bleeding into the skin and mucous membranes.
• Thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura, acquired: A rare blood condition where small blood clots form in blood vessels which reduces the number of blood platelets and results in kidney failure, neurological symptoms and anemia. The condition may be familial or acquired - symptoms tend to recur regularly in the familial form.
• Toxemia: A medical condition that occurs when there is a release of toxins from bacteria within the bloodstream
• Type 1 diabetes: Severe insulin-treated diabetes typically occurring in young people.
• Type 2 diabetes: Most common diabetes in adults, usually progressing slowly, mostly treated without insulin at diagnosis.

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