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Cardiovascular Diseases > Vascular Diseases > Hypertension > Hypertension, Pregnancy-Induced > Pre-Eclampsia
Urogenital Diseases > Female Urogenital Diseases and Pregnancy Complications > Pregnancy Complications > Hypertension, Pregnancy-Induced > Pre-Eclampsia

Preferred term

Pre-Eclampsia  

Type

  • Topical Descriptor

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Entry terms

  • Edema Proteinuria Hypertension Gestosis
  • Edema-Proteinuria-Hypertension Gestosis
  • EPH Complex
  • EPH Gestosis
  • EPH Toxemia
  • EPH Toxemias
  • Gestosis, Edema-Proteinuria-Hypertension
  • Gestosis, EPH
  • Gestosis, Hypertension-Edema-Proteinuria
  • Gestosis, Proteinuria-Edema-Hypertension
  • Hypertension Edema Proteinuria Gestosis
  • Hypertension-Edema-Proteinuria Gestosis
  • Of Pregnancies, Toxemia
  • Of Pregnancy, Toxemia
  • Preeclampsia
  • Pregnancies, Toxemia Of
  • Pregnancy Toxemia
  • Pregnancy, Toxemia Of
  • Pregnancy Toxemias
  • Proteinuria Edema Hypertension Gestosis
  • Proteinuria-Edema-Hypertension Gestosis
  • Toxemia, EPH
  • Toxemia Of Pregnancies
  • Toxemia Of Pregnancy
  • Toxemia, Pregnancy
  • Toxemias, EPH
  • Toxemias, Pregnancy

Note

  • check tags FEMALE & PREGNANCY

Scope note

  • A complication of PREGNANCY, characterized by a complex of symptoms including maternal HYPERTENSION and PROTEINURIA with or without pathological EDEMA. Symptoms may range between mild and severe. Pre-eclampsia usually occurs after the 20th week of gestation, but may develop before this time in the presence of trophoblastic disease.

History note

  • 1979(1963)

In other languages

  • pre-eklampsia

    Finnish

  • määrittämätön pre-eklampsia
  • prae-eclampsia
  • prae-eclampsia non specificata
  • raskausmyrkytys
  • raskaustoksemia
  • raskaustoksikoosi
  • toksemia
  • Havandeskapsförgiftning

    Swedish

  • Graviditetstoxikos
  • Preeklampsi

URI

http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D011225

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