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Antihypertensive Drugs and Uterine Blood Flow

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Therapeutic Problems in Pregnancy

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A systolic blood-pressure of 135 mmHg or more, or a diastolic blood-pressure of 85 mmHg or more is abnormal in pregnancy. If an elevated blood-pressure is recorded before 20 weeks maturity, the condition is usually termed essential hypertension in pregnancy. The majority of such patients will have latent or mild benign essential hypertension, brought to light by the sharp discrimination of the abnormal blood-pressure which pregnancy engenders. Some are established hypertensives. The remainder have general disorders such as renal disease, aortic regurgitation, congenital heart disease, thyrotoxicosis, systemic lupus erythematosus or a simple anxiety state. Fortunately, after the primary condition has been treated adequately, the management of any residual hypertension is the same as that of the com­moner types of hypertension in pregnancy.

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  1. Clinical Pharmacology Unit, Institute of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Queen Charlotte’s Hospital for Women, London, UK

    P. J. Lewis MD, PhD, MRCP (Senior Lecturer in Clinical Pharmacology) (Senior Lecturer in Clinical Pharmacology)

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Hawkins, D.F. (1977). Antihypertensive Drugs and Uterine Blood Flow. In: Lewis, P.J. (eds) Therapeutic Problems in Pregnancy. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-7927-0_2

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