The hypertensive disorders of pregnancy (29.3)

Laura A. Magee, Anouk Pels, Michael Helewa, Evelyne Rey, Peter Von Dadelszen, Francois Audibert, Emmanuel Bujold, Anne Marie Côté, M. Joanne Douglas, Genevieve Eastabrook, Tabassum Firoz, Paul Gibson, Andrée Gruslin, Jennifer Hutcheon, Gideon Koren, Ian Lange, Line Leduc, Alexander G. Logan, Karen L. Macdonell, Jean Marie MoutquinIlana Sebbag

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Abstract

Hypertensive disorders are the most common medical complication of pregnancy. As such, a large part of antenatal care is dedicated to the detection of pre-eclampsia, the most dangerous of the hypertensive disorders. The highlights of this chapter include progress in the use of out-of-office blood pressure measurement as an adjunct to office blood pressure measurement, pre-eclampsia defined as proteinuria or relevant end-organ dysfunction, antihypertensive therapy for severe and non-severe hypertension and post-partum follow-up to mitigate the increased cardiovascular risk associated with any of the hypertensive disorders of pregnancy.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)643-657
Number of pages15
JournalBest Practice and Research: Clinical Obstetrics and Gynaecology
Volume29
Issue number5
DOIs
StatePublished - 1 Jul 2015
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • hypertension
  • long-term prognosis
  • maternal outcome
  • perinatal outcome
  • pre-eclampsia
  • pregnancy

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