Hellp syndrome, reversible posterior leukoencephalopathy syndrome and eclampsia
| Autor: | Anderson Kuntz Grzesiuk, Ademar Rodrigues Carvalho, Renato Pacheco de Melo |
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| Rok vydání: | 2009 |
| Předmět: |
medicine.medical_specialty
Pregnancy Eclampsia HELLP syndrome business.industry Microangiopathic hemolytic anemia medicine.disease Gastroenterology female genital diseases and pregnancy complications Reversible posterior leukoencephalopathy syndrome Neurology Internal medicine Liver enzyme Edema medicine Neurology (clinical) medicine.symptom Complication business reproductive and urinary physiology |
| Zdroj: | Arquivos de Neuro-Psiquiatria, Volume: 67, Issue: 4, Pages: 1103-1105, Published: DEC 2009 |
| ISSN: | 0004-282X |
| DOI: | 10.1590/s0004-282x2009000600028 |
| Popis: | week of pregnancy, and are characterized by arterial hypertension, edema and pro-teinuria; in eclampsia, seizures also happen¹. Pre-eclamp-sia and eclampsia figure among the three most important causes of death in pregnancy. Among the complications of eclampsia, HELLP syndrome figures prominently as a cause of aggregated morbidity and of mortality. This syndrome is characterized by microangiopathic hemolytic anemia, increase of circulating liver enzymes and thrombocytope-nia. It is an important complication of the last third of pregnancy, and it typically happens in women with known diagnosis of pre-eclampsia, although it has also been de-scribed in women without this diagnosis, as originally de-scribed by Weinstein in 1982 |
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