A condition in pregnancy characterized by high blood pressure, sometimes with fluid retention and proteinuria.
子痫前期，先兆子痫，惊厥前期
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She was suffering from pre-eclampsia, a pregnancy-related illness which, in rare cases, can result in the death of the mother or the baby.
Few women experienced obstetric complications before delivery, although one woman developed pre-eclampsia.
A condition called pre-eclampsia was diagnosed and doctors decided that an emergency Caesarean operation was the only option.
After the age of 35, women are more likely to suffer miscarriage, ectopic pregnancy and pre-eclampsia.
None of the medical team managing her first pregnancy warned her of pre-eclampsia.
Patients who develop pre-eclampsia at near term are at low risk of maternal and neonatal morbidity.
With pre-eclampsia, high blood pressure can develop any time after the 20th week of pregnancy, but is most common towards the end.
Such women have twice the risk of pre-eclampsia in their own pregnancies compared with other women.
Several studies have shown a risk of coronary heart disease associated with pre-eclampsia, though our findings were not significant.
Conditions such as pre-eclampsia can be detected only through regular antenatal checks.
She had essential hypertension and, at 33 weeks gestation, developed pre-eclampsia.
Women with no risk factors for pre-eclampsia may still develop the condition.
She suffered pre-eclampsia, a condition in which her blood pressure skyrocketed and her body wanted to shut down.
The amount of protein in the urine is also checked alongside a blood pressure reading to test for pre-eclampsia.
We keep all patients with severe pre-eclampsia in hospital.
Derivatives
pre-eclamptic
adjectiveˌpriːɪˈklam(p)tɪk
Affected with or relating to pre-eclampsia in pregnancy.
severe pre-eclamptic women with a hypertensive crisis
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a pre-eclamptic pregnancy
The risk of breast cancer was significantly increased for pre-eclamptic women after adjusting for age and parity.
Women who were born after a pre-eclamptic pregnancy had more than twice the risk of having pre-eclampsia in their first pregnancy compared with other women.
The evidence that blood pressure measurement may predict pre-eclamptic toxaemia is not yet conclusive.