A complication of PREGNANCY, characterized by a complex of symptoms including maternal HYPERTENSION and PROTEINURIA with or without pathological EDEMA. Symptoms may range between mild and severe. Pre-eclampsia usually occurs after the 20th week of gestation, but may develop before this time in the presence of trophoblastic disease. A pregnancy induced hypertensive state that occurs after 20 weeks of gestation characterized by an increase in blood pressure, along with body swelling and proteinuria. Preeclampsia is a hypertensive disorder of pregnancy that is characterized by new-onset hypertension with proteinuria presenting after 20 weeks of gestation, and depending on mild or severe forms may initially present with severe headache, visual disturbances, and hyperreflexia.
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DOID:10591; EPH - Edema, proteinuria and hypertension of pregnancy; EPH - Oedema, proteinuria and hypertension of pregnancy; EPH Complex; EPH Gestosis; EPH Toxemia; EPH Toxemias; Edema Proteinuria Hypertension Gestosis; Gestational hypertension; Gestational hypertension (disorder); NCIT:C85021; Orphanet:275555; PE - Pre-eclampsia; PET - Pre-eclamptic toxaemia; PET - Pre-eclamptic toxemia; PREECLAMPSIA/ECLAMPSIA; PREGN TOXEMIAS; Pre Eclampsia; Pre-eclampsia (disorder); Pre-eclampsia NOS; Pre-eclampsia NOS (disorder); Pre-eclampsia, unspecified; Pre-eclamptic NOS; Pre-eclamptic toxaemia; Pre-eclamptic toxemia; Pregnancy Toxemia; Pregnancy Toxemias; Pregnancy associated hypertension; Pregnancy-induced hypertension (disorder); Proteinuric hypertension of pregnancy; Toxaemia NOS; Toxaemia of pregnancy, NOS; Toxemia; Toxemia NOS; Toxemia NOS (disorder); Toxemia of pregnancy (disorder); Toxemia of pregnancy, NOS; http://identifiers.org/medgen/18608; http://identifiers.org/mesh/D011225; http://identifiers.org/snomedct/398254007; http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/umls/id/C0032914; https://omim.org/phenotypicSeries/PS189800; hypertension induced by pregnancy; hypertension of preg.; hypertension of pregnancy NOS; hypertension of pregnancy NOS (disorder); pregnancy toxaemia