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=Welcome to Preeclampsia & Eclampsia Wiki=



What is this Wiki all about?

 * It provides a quick, easy, and accurate information about preeclampsia and eclampsia that occurs in pregnant women.

What is Preeclampsia and Eclampsia?
(Perry, Hockenberry, Lowdermilk, & Wilson, 2010, p. 335).
 * //**__Preeclampsia__**//: is a pregnancy-specific sydnrome where signs and symptoms deveolp only during pregnancy and disappear soon after birth of the fetus and placenta. It develops after 20 weeks gestation where there is a presence of hypertenstion (defined as >160mmHg systolic, and >110mmHg diastolic) and protien found in the urine (>30mg/dl)

(Perry et al, 2010, p. 336)
 * __//**Eclampsia**//__: is the occurance of seizures in a woman with preeclampisa that cannot be attributed to other causes