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Pre-eclampsia

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Midwifery Practice: Core Topics 1

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Pre-eclampsia has been known by various names in the past, some of them still in use. The Victorians knew it as ‘toxaemia of pregnancy’ because they thought it was caused by one or more poisons circulating in the mother’s bloodstream. This term is now obsolete, although a later description — ‘pre-eclamptic toxaemia’ — persists, mostly because it can be conveniently abbreviated to PET.

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Cheston, T.M. (1996). Pre-eclampsia. In: Alexander, J., Levy, V., Roch, S. (eds) Midwifery Practice: Core Topics 1. Midwifery Practice. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-14112-8_8

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