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Management of Hypertension

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High blood pressure affects about 10 % of pregnancies worldwide (Duley 2009), and is the second-most frequent cause of maternal death (Khan et al. 2006). The most serious form of pregnancy hypertension is pre-eclampsia, a progressive multisystem disorder only curable by delivery of the infant. Pre-eclampsia is found in about 2–8 % of pregnancies (Duley 2009), with 5–8 % of pre-eclamptic women in less-developed countries going on to eclamptic convulsions (World Health Organization 2011). Other complications of pre-eclampsia include intracerebral haemorrhage, pulmonary oedema, liver rupture, placental abruption, fetal growth restriction, and HELLP (haemolysis, elevated liver enzymes, low platelets) syndrome.

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  1. Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University of the Witwatersrand, 7 York Road, Parktown, Johannesburg, 2193, South Africa

    Eckhart J. Buchmann MBBCh, FCOG (SA), MSc, PhD

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    Karen Sliwa

  2. Department of Obstetrics & Gynaecology, Groote Schuur Hospital, Cape Town, South Africa

    John Anthony

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Buchmann, E.J. (2014). Management of Hypertension. In: Sliwa, K., Anthony, J. (eds) Cardiac Drugs in Pregnancy. Current Cardiovascular Therapy. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-5472-3_2

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