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
- The amount of protein in the urine is also checked alongside a blood pressure reading to test for pre-eclampsia.
- A condition called pre-eclampsia was diagnosed and doctors decided that an emergency Caesarean operation was the only option.
- With pre-eclampsia, high blood pressure can develop any time after the 20th week of pregnancy, but is most common towards the end.
- Few women experienced obstetric complications before delivery, although one woman developed pre-eclampsia.
- The cause of death was pre-eclampsia, and that happens some hours after the birth. Times, Sunday Times
- Risk of pre-eclampsia (dangerously high blood pressure which can cause premature birth). The Sun
- Several studies have shown a risk of coronary heart disease associated with pre-eclampsia, though our findings were not significant.
- We keep all patients with severe pre-eclampsia in hospital.
- The couple, from Whinmoor, Leeds, claim greater care should have been taken of the woman who was diagnosed with pre-eclampsia - a placental defect - some weeks before the birth.
- KALISH: The overall risk of having pre-eclampsia, which is high blood pressure in pregnancy, is about 7 percent. CNN Transcript Aug 24, 2006
