Abstract

AMARAN VALVERDE, Jorge Ernesto et al. Main characteristics of severe preeclampsia in pregnant women admitted in a hospital from Zimbabwe. MEDISAN [online]. 2009, vol.13, n.3, pp. 0-0. ISSN 1029-3019.

A descriptive, longitudinal and prospective study of 162 patients with severe preeclampsia from a total of 1 532 pregnant women who were admitted at Victoria Falls Hospital in Zimbabwe from September, 2005 to March, 2006 was carried out. Among the analyzed variables there were: age, origin, triggering factors of preeclampsia, symptoms and signs of severity and more frequent complications. In the case material, the most affected were those under 20 years and of rural origin; all the pregnant women had bad nutritional habits and many of them suffered serious complications such as eclampsia, acute renal failure and lung acute edema, in some fetal cases.

Keywords : PRE ECLAMPSIA [diagnosis]; ECLAMPSIA [diagnosis]; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; PROTEINURIA; HIPERTENSIÓN; PREGNANCY; MATERNAL MORTALITY; RENAL INSUFFICIENCY, ACUTE; PULMONARY EDEMA; PRENATAL CARE.

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