Resumen

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. 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.

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

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