Groundbreaking pre-eclampsia screening test to be trialled
Researchers are to trial a ground-breaking screening test for pre-eclampsia, a potentially life-threatening condition affecting pregnant women and their unborn babies.Researchers from the Nottingham Clinical Trials Unit at the University [...]
What is pre-eclampsia?
Pre-eclampsia is the most common of the serious complications of pregnancy. It is a condition that affects some pregnant women, usually during the second half of pregnancy (from 20 [...]
How does pre-eclampsia affect mother and baby?
Pre-eclampsia is the most common of the serious complications arising in pregnancy, which can affect the mother, her unborn child, or most commonly, both. What happens to the mother? [...]
Who gets pre-eclampsia?
In its broadest form and including gestational hypertension, pre-eclampsia affects as many as one in 10 of all pregnancies, making it the most common of the serious antenatal complications. It [...]
Postnatal recovery from pre-eclampsia
Although pre-eclampsia is usually considered a disease of the second half of pregnancy, it can show itself for the first time after delivery. Pre-eclampsia at any time can cause [...]
Is pre-eclampsia a danger to mothers and babies?
The short answer is yes, potentially. Pre-eclampsia can be fatal for mothers and babies if not properly managed. Worldwide it causes the deaths of 6 women per minute. In the [...]
What is eclampsia?
Eclampsia is a Greek word meaning ‘bolt from the blue’. It describes one or more convulsions occurring during or immediately after pregnancy as a complication of pre-eclampsia. Eclampsia has been [...]
What are the signs and symptoms of pre-eclampsia?
Pre-eclampsia has no symptoms in its early stages, when it can be detected only in routine screening tests carried out in antenatal clinics. A combination of rising blood pressure and [...]
Georgie’s story
Georgie Withers is a paramedic and pre-eclampsia advocate who suffered from severe pre-eclampsia during her pregnancy with her first daughter. Here, she shares here story and explains how PlGF [...]
