New YORK (Reuters Health) – pre-eclampsia and the

post-partum eclampsia may occur days or weeks after a

normal birth, according to researchers in the journal reports

Obstetrics & Gynecology.

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Eclampsia is a pregnancy-related condition

that occurs after a preeclampsia, a complication

serious pregnancy characterized by high blood pressure and

excessive and rapid increase in weight.

With better prenatal care and prophylactic use of

perinatal, magnesium sulphate was registered one

marked reduction in the incidence of pre-eclampsia in the

recent years, and a shift towards a greater frequency of

towards the period late postpartum eclampsia.

Dr. Zain team – Safi, the school of

Medicine, Wayne State University and medical center of

Detroit, assessed the demographics, clinical treatment and

complications of post-partum pre-eclampsia delayed 152

women.

Patients had been reingresadas to the hospital between

two days and six weeks after the high initial with a

diagnosis of pre-eclampsia postpartum.

Nearly two thirds of women lacked a history of

diagnosis of hypersensitivity to the disease in pregnancy

current. Twenty-seven had been treated with sulphate of

magnesium perinatally.

El 69 per cent of women were presented with pain of

head. Others had symptoms such as shortness of breath, vision

cloudy, nausea, vomiting, edema, seizures, other deficit

neurological and pain epigastric.

El 15% of patients developed eclampsia, and

more than 90 percent of cases were presented inside of the

seven days of hospital discharge.

Associated in a regressive, logistic model young age

with a 13 percent increase in the possibilities of

develop eclampsia, while a readmission with low

hemoglobin linked with 25 percent less likely to

progress to eclampsia.

Only 28 of 543 women diagnosed with pre-eclampsia

superimposed on chronic hypertension during the period of

Studio reingresaron to the hospital for post-partum pre-eclampsia, and

in none of these table advanced to eclampsia.

“Should speak of the possibility of pre-eclampsia and

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post-partum eclampsia delayed after the birth of the baby, already

is the patient to develop or not hypertensive disease

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prior to hospital discharge”, concluded researchers.

“Patients should be informed that it could be

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at risk of pre-eclampsia or eclampsia until about six weeks

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after childbirth”, added the team.

Source: Obstetrics & Gynecology, November of 2011