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Filter by:The aim of the present study is to evaluate the implication of adipokines, inflammation, insulin resistance and endothelial dysfunction in the pathogenesis of preeclampsia and in pregnancy related complications.
Background: Preeclampsia is one of the leading causes of maternal and perinatal morbidity and mortality worldwide, and it affects 3% to 8% of all pregnancies. Maternal and perinatal morbidity and mortality resulting from preeclampsia are due to its complications. Clinical prediction of complications associated with preeclampsia may facilitate initiation of timely management to reduce or avert adverse outcomes associated with the condition. Studies on current biomarkers (proteinuria or uric acid) have shown poor performance in the prediction of adverse pregnancy outcomes in preeclamptic women. Placental growth factor (PlGF) is an angiogenic growth factor that is exclusively produced by the trophoblast. Circulating levels of placental growth factor have been reported to be reduced in women with preeclampsia. Therefore there is a need to evaluate the predictive performance on adverse pregnancy outcomes of this pregnancy specific biomaker among preeclamptic women. Aim: To determine the predictive accuracy of maternal serum PlGF level for adverse pregnancy outcomes in preeclamptic women. Materials and Method: It is a prospective cohort study that will be conducted on 110 women that will be admitted for preeclampsia in the Federal Teaching Hospital and Saint Patrick Mile 4 Hospital Abakaliki. On admission women who will give informed consent will have their blood sample collected. The sample will be analysed using Enzyme linked Immunosorbent Assay technique to determine the level of PlGF (pg/ml). All the study participants will be followed up until delivery. The socio-demographic characteristics and maternal and perinatal adverse outcomes will be entered into a proforma. Data will be entered and analyzed using SPSS version 22.0. Strength and limitation: The strength of the study is that a single biomaker, PlGF, will be assayed and the test will be performed once, which is cost-saving. The limitation of this study is that there would not be long term follow up of participants after hospital discharge and so complications that will occur after discharge will not be assessed. Conclusion: Considering the contribution of preeclampsia to maternal morbidity and mortality in Abakaliki and poor predictive performance of available biochemical markers on adverse pregnancy outcomes among preeclamptic women, there is need to conduct this study so as to ascertain the utility of PlGF in predicting adverse outcome among preeclamptic women in Abakaliki.
A quick, non-invasive, bedside test to assess fluid status of patients with severe preeclampsia would be very helpful to ICU clinicians severe preeclampsia is associated with an increase in extravascular lung water (EVLW), which can be identified by lung ultrasound before appearance of clinical signs of pulmonary edema but this technique still requires several measurements and could be time consuming. Optic ultrasound is also a safe and repeatable diagnostic tool, which is even quicker and simpler to perform than lung ultrasound. Increased ONSD is associated with increased ICP and it can indirectly reflect the state of intracranial edema that could be a part of generalized edema. More data on the correlation between ONSD and markers of fluid status (EVLW by ultrasound) are needed before ONSD measurements can be recommended as a guide to fluid management in preeclampsia.
Background: Pre-eclampsia, defined by the association of an arterial hypertension and significant proteinuria after 20 weeks of gestation, complicates 1 to 2% of pregnancies in France. Its pathophysiology involves angiogenesis impairment, upregulated maternal systemic inflammatory response, activation of oxidative stress and endothelial dysfunction. In a recent Danish nation-wide cohort study, pre-eclampsia was associated with a 69% increased risk of later developing scleroderma. Type of study: prospective observational case-control study. Primary objective of the study: to determine if a history of pre-eclampsia before systemic sclerosis diagnosis is an independent risk factor for vascular phenotype in sclerodermic women. Secondary objective: to describe all risk factors for vascular phenotype in sclerodermic women with a previous pregnancy longer than 6 months before scleroderma diagnosis.
Study based on data concerning the first pregnancy treated and followed up after the diagnosis of oAPS in the NOH-APS cohort, according to clinical results already published; and on a thematic library collected and preserved at the time of the positive pregnancy test. ADAMTS 13 will be explored in the available samples defined above: ADAMTS13 antigen (presence of the molecule), ADAMTS13 activity (VWF proteolysis activity of the molecule), global autoantibodies against ADAMTS13 (plasma antibodies recognizing solid phase insolubilized ADAMTS13), these 3 parameters for the description of ADAMTS13 being measured using commercially available diagnostic kits, ELISA type, Technozyme® range, Technoclone, Vienna, Austria. The clinical endpoint evaluated will be the occurrence (yes/no) of preeclampsia, which is assessed globally, all subtypes combined. Then evaluated according to subtype: late preeclampsia from 34 weeks, early preeclampsia before 34 weeks, eclampsia (convulsions), HELLP syndrome, preeclampsia associated with the birth of a small-for-gestational-age child (defined at percentile 10 of the tables adjusted for gestational age and sex; severe: defined at percentile 3), preeclampsia associated with a retro-placental hematoma, ...
In particular, pentraxine 3 (PTX3) molecule was assumed to have a prognostic value in acute myocardial infarction.In patients affected by acute myocardial infarction, early plasma elevation of PTX3 appears to predict a worse outcome in these patients in the longer term. The inflammatory basis of preeclampsia resembles an atherogenic process.It is planned to investigate the role of these two molecules in endothelial dysfunction typical of preeclampsia. The level of circulating PTX3 and Lp-PLA2 in preeclamptic patients and their serum levels according to the severity of preeclampsia and presence of IUGR, and comparison with the control group without preeclampsia and It is planned to investigate the cut-off values and sensitivity and specificity of both molecules together and separately in preeclampsia.
This study will collect high-quality data on how practicing obstetricians across the U.S. currently manage patients showing signs and/or symptoms of preeclampsia and how the results of Progenity's test change clinical decision making. To do so, this study leverages simulated patient cases called Clinical Performance and Value vignettes (CPVs) in a proven methodology to rapidly measure physician care decisions.
Eclampsia is a rare but serious disease that can happen during the pregnancy. Both general and regional anesthesia can both be performed in eclamptic patients. Eclamptic patients has greater risk if undergo general anesthesia such as risks associated with general anesthesia in pregnancy and also cerebral hemorrhage risks from hypertension during laryngoscope application and thrombocytopenia that can happen in eclamptic patients. So, most of Anesthesiologists tend to avoid performing general anesthesia in these patients. But spinal anesthesia also has side effects such as hypotension or epidural hematoma. And nowadays there's minimal evidence on suitable anesthesia in eclamptic patients. Our study wants to review on how choice of anesthesia affects these patients both mothers and their neonates
The investigator measured the arterial stiffness using cardio-ankle vascular index (CAVI) test in patient with preeclampsia and normal pregnant women to evaluate the longitudinal change of CAVI and their predictors.
Q MOLI is an alongside qualitative study, for the 'Misoprostol or Oxytocin for Labour Induction' (MOLI) pragmatic, open-label, randomised controlled trial, comparing a misoprostol/misoprostol regime vs the standard misoprostol/oxytocin induction of labour regime.1000 patients with hypertensive disease in pregnancy will be recruited, over 24 months, in Nagpur, India.