NOUN
- abnormal state of pregnancy characterized by hypertension and fluid retention and albuminuria; can lead to eclampsia if untreated
How To Use pre-eclampsia In A Sentence
- 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.
- Although pre-eclampsia cannot be completely cured before the delivery, administering drugs such as magnesium sulfate can lower a woman's risk of developing convulsions (eclampsia), which can be fatal.
- The amount of protein in the urine is also checked alongside a blood pressure reading to test for pre-eclampsia.
- With pre-eclampsia, high blood pressure can develop any time after the 20th week of pregnancy, but is most common towards the end.
- More than twice as many in the placebo group developed pre-eclampsia. The Sun
- Such women have twice the risk of pre-eclampsia in their own pregnancies compared with other women.
- In pre-eclampsia, the placenta runs short of blood. The Sun
- Pre-eclampsia is a multisystem disorders specifically occurred in pregnancy, it is a leading cause of perinatal morbidity and mortality of mother and infant.
- Our mum had a complicated pregnancy, suffering with toxaemia, what we now call pre-eclampsia. Times, Sunday Times
