Episode 64: Problems during pregnancy with Jacqueline Galvan part 2
Anesthesia and Critical Care Reviews and Commentary (ACCRAC) Podcast
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Preeclampsia Without Severe Features?
G gestational hypertension is a blood pressure elevation after 20 weeks in the absence of protonuria or other systemic findings. That sounds to me the same as preeclampsia without severe features, which is what we're saying is a pressure of 140 over 90 or greater twice at least four hours apart. In normal pregnancy, there is a balance between vasodilators and vasoconstrictors and platelet activators. And those two things regulates platelet aggregation and peripheral vasorectivity that ultimately leads to good placenta blood flow.
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