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 language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 643-657 |
| Number of pages | 15 |
| Journal | Best Practice and Research: Clinical Obstetrics and Gynaecology |
| Volume | 29 |
| Issue number | 5 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 1 Jul 2015 |
| Externally published | Yes |
Keywords
- hypertension
- long-term prognosis
- maternal outcome
- perinatal outcome
- pre-eclampsia
- pregnancy