Active clinical trials for "Pre-Eclampsia"

Preeclampsia is a form of hypertensive pregnancy disorder with multiorgan involvement. It is characterized by new-onset hypertension and proteinuria after 20 weeks' gestation in a woman whose blood pressure was normal before pregnancy. The condition may be serious and is a leading cause of preterm birth (before 37 weeks of pregnancy). If it is severe enough it may affect the brain function, causing seizures or coma, this is called eclampsia

Severe pre-eclamptic toxemia has a high incidence of renal complications. Rapid diagnosis and termination of pregnancy are still the gold standard main treatment for pre-eclampsia. Rapid control of blood pressure showed to provide protection against many adverse effects of preeclampsia as intracranial hemorrhage, subcapsular hepatic hematoma and acute kidney injury (AKI). In Assiut university hospital ICU regimen, glyceryl trinitrate (GTN) was used primarily for this purpose. But it was accused in many cases as a cause for AKI without any other organ damage along with the severe preeclampsia disease. Some previous studies supported this assumption as , Ying-Hsuan .T. et.,al during their study of GTN on renal outcome during cardiopulmonary bypass in cardiac surgery. Phentolamine infusion is a new rising alternative for an old drug with a high safety profile. In this research protocol the researchers will study comparative effect of glyceryl trinitrate (GTN) versus phentolamine on renal outcome in severe pre-eclampsia patients during their stay in obstetric ICU.

This study seeks to validate the hypothesis that nulliparous pregnant women after Assisted Reproductive Technology (ART) are at high risk of preeclampsia and perinatal complications and represent a subgroup for which aspirin prophylaxis during pregnancy may be effective in the prevention of preterm preeclampsia and other perinatal adverse outcomes.

In this randomized controlled study, preventive intervention of aspirin combined with probiotics or aspirin combined with placebo would given to PE (pre-eclampsia) high-risk population with gut microbiota dysbiosis during their pregnancy, and finally assess the efficacy and safety of aspirin combined with probiotics to prevent PE.

This research study is being performed to see if women diagnosed with early preterm Hemolysis, Elevated Liver Enzymes, Low Platelets (HELLP) syndrome (estimated gestational ages of 23-30 weeks) benefit from a medication called eculizumab (ECU). This drug blocks a part of the immune system called complement. By blocking this part of the immune system, eculizumab may stop or reverse the progression of the HELLP syndrome disease. The investigators will also look to see if this drug is effective and benefits both the mother and fetus.

Pregnant women diagnosed with pre-eclampsia with severe features will be treated with magnesium sulfate to prevent seizures. Magnesium sulfate will be administered according to My Duc Hospital's protocol for treatment of pre-eclampsia (a loading dose of 4.5g given intravenously in 20 min, followed by a maintenance dose at an infusion rate of 1.5g/h). Serum magnesium concentrations will be measured before the loading dose and 0.5h, 1h, 2h, and every 6 hours thereafter.

Pre-eclampsia is an hypertensive disorder appearing during pregnancy, inducing serious maternal, fetal and neonatal mortality and morbidity. Twenty four hours proteinuria is a key element to define pre-eclampsia severity but is delaying the result by 24 hours and constraining for the patient. A simple and rapid indicator for severe preeclampsia would help clinicians to make appropriate decision in patient management. We hypothesized that urinary podocyturia is correlated to preeclampsia severity. This is a prospective, non-interventional, monocentric study.

The investigators will collect omental tissue (research surgical excision) and placental tissue (standard of care clinical delivery) from both preeclamptic and non-preeclamptic women during their c-section and use these samples to study the blood vessels, specifically the expression/activation of the AT2R.

This study evaluates the utility of expanded panel non-invasive prenatal testing (NIPT) in detecting confined placental mosaicism of rare autosomal trisomies among pregnancies with placentally-mediated complications, including fetal growth restriction and severe preeclampsia.

Introduction: The placenta is the organ that permits the maternal-fetal exchange of the oxygen and nutrients. The development of its vascular network occurs in the first trimester. Any deficit during this important angiogenesis procedure can lead to the dysfunction of the placental vasculature, which can potentially cause pathologies including preeclampsia (PE) and intrauterine growth restriction (IUGR). PE concerns 3% of the pregnancy in France. It can occur at any gestational age and leads to serious complications such as eclampsia, the HELLP syndrome or the retro-placental hematoma. IUGR does not only lead to the morbidity and fetal and neonatal mortality, but also has a predisposition for certain pathologies in the adulthood. Many groups have studied the placenta vasculature at the microscopic (histological) scale. However, recent studies show that in addition to the damage at the microvasculature level, the macroscopic placental vessel architecture is also altered. Nonetheless, the origin and the etiology of this phenomenon remains unknown. Since it is difficult to apply in-vivo imaging techniques on pregnant women due to the restriction of usage of contrast agent. Alternatively, ex-vivo MR angiography (MRA) techniques have been developed by our team and others to visualize the entire placental vasculature in a faster way (as compared to corrosion casting). Up to now, only the study of the healthy placenta is done and published. The analysis of the pathological placental vasculature (i.e. PE and IUGR cases) at different gestational age and its comparison to the physiological ones have not been conducted, which will potentially enable a better understanding of the placental vasculature pathology. Objectives: the main objective of this study is to compare the vasculature architecture of the normal and pathological placentas (with possible alteration in the placental vasculature). Methods and analysis: This is a monocentric, prospective, controlled but not randomized study. The investigators expect to include 110 women in Nancy. The pregnant women will be recruited when they arrived at the maternity hospital for delivery, for both the physiological and potential pathological cases. The notice of this study will be given. If no opposition is given by the subject, the placenta may be collected. This study will not collect the patient consent but only the opposition declaration will be collected.