Download – Hypertensive Disorders of Pregnancy

This term, used in the Reports on Confidential Enquiries into Maternal Deaths in the United Kingdom, covers the spectrum of disorders encompassing pre-eclampsia, eclampsia, and the syndrome of haemolysis, elevated liver enzymes and low platelets (HELLP). Acute fatty liver of pregnancy and other microangiopathies of pregnancy are related disorders that can arise simultaneously.

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