Active clinical trials for "Pre-Eclampsia"

This study will explore the effectiveness of low-dose aspirin on preventing pre-eclampsia in high-risks pregnant women by comparing the incidence of pre-eclampsia and pregnancy outcomes.

Evaluation of 25- Hydroxyvitamin D levels in pregnant women in Austria and potential related disorders Hypothesis: Austrian pregnant women are Vitamin D deficient Present vitamin D supplementation in pregnancy is insufficient Vitamin D deficiency is associated with pregnancy related disorders like preeclampsia

The purpose of this study is to verify that the implementation of a protocol physiotherapy musculoskeletal pain and reduces anxiety and improves quality of life in patients hospitalized at the clinic of high-risk pregnancies at the Hospital das Clinicas of Ribeirao Preto, with a diagnosis of preeclampsia and chronic hypertension with superimposed preeclampsia. Where patients will be recruited, answered questionnaires before and after application of physiotherapy protocol.

Preeclampsia complicates about 2-7% of pregnancies and is a major contributor to maternal and neonatal morbidity and mortality worldwide. Imbalance between circulating angiogenic and antiangiogenic factors has emerged as a potential key pathway in the pathophysiology of preeclampsia. Patients with preeclampsia have a higher circulating concentration of antiangiogenic factors (ie, soluble vascular endothelial growth factor receptor-1 [sVEGFR- 1], also called soluble fms-like tyrosine kinase 1 [sFlt1]) and soluble endoglin (sEng)] and a lower maternal circulating concentration of free angiogenic factors (ie, vascular endothelial growth factor [VEGF] and placental growth factor [PlGF]) than patients with a normal pregnancy. Bronchopulmonary dysplasia is the main respiratory sequelae of preterm birth. Its rate increased in preterm infants born from mother with preeclampsia. Recent studies showed that bronchopulmonary dysplasia is consistently accompanied by a reduction in the number of small arteries and on abnormal distribution of vessels within the distal lungs. This is associated with reduced lung VEGF expression. The main objective of this population-based study, ie in intra uterine growth restricted preterm babies born before 30 weeks of gestational age, was to examine whether levels of sFlt1 at birth in maternal and umbilical cord blood and in the amniotic fluid is associated with an increased risk of BPD.

The purpose of this study to determine if measurement of maternal serum biomarkers and evaluation of the placenta by ultrasound can improve prediction of adverse pregnancy outcomes.

The investigators examined whether there was a difference in the occurrence of ST depressions after injection of five or ten units of oxytocin, in preeclamptic patients delivered by caesarean section (CS) under regional anesthesia.

The study hypothesis is the involvement of the couple CX3CR1/CX3CL1 in occurrence of endothelial injury in preeclampsia. According to this hypothesis, Carriers of the I249 allele who express less CX3CR1 shoud be protected against this risk. The main objective of the study is the search of an association between CX3CR1 V249I polymorphism and preeclampsia. The secondary aims are the search of an association with the most severe forms of preeclampsia and endothelial injury.

The aim of this study is to make it easier to predict late-onset preeclampsia at 11-14 weeks of pregnancy. This will be done by measuring certain proteins in the mother's blood together with obtaining the mother's medical history, ultrasound of the mother's blood supply to the uterus, and her blood pressure. All expectant mothers who meet the inclusion criteria will be invited to participate in the study, and those that agree will have the above mentioned factors measured at their first trimester scan appointment. The data will be registered in an online database, and the blood samples will be saved in a biobank at the hospital. When the women have then given birth around six months later, the data will be analyzed, and whether or not the individual woman ended up developing preeclampsia will be found out from her medical records. It will then be possible to see if blood samples, medical history, blood supply to the uterus, and/or blood pressure are connected to development of preeclampsia.

This study aims to assess the effect of epidural anesthesia on the optic nerve sheath diameter in parturients with preeclampsia.

Introduction: The etiology/pathophysiology of preeclampsia remains an enigma. Cellular immunity is a key factor in the etiology of late-onset preeclampsia (L-PrE). Presepsin is split out from the phagocytes membranes after phagocytosis. To investigators knowledge, this is the first study in literature to investigate maternal blood concentrations of presepsin in preeclampsia and healthy pregnant women. Methods: The investigators examined maternal plasma interleukin-6, presepsin and pentraxin-3 concentrations in pregnant women with (n=44) and without L-PrE (n=44). These three inflammatory markers concentrations measured using enzyme-linked immunosorbent assays were compared.