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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 Moutquin
  • Ilana 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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