Preeclampsia is defined as elevation of blood pressure and any of the following severity criteria: proteinuria, thrombocytopenia, elevation of creatinine in the absence of another renal pathology, elevation of transaminases, pulmonary edema, or neurological symptoms. However, after 20 weeks of gestation in a previously normotensive patient, cases of preeclampsia associated with molar pregnancy have been described in patients at less than 20 weeks of gestation. A 26-year-old woman, at 14.1 weeks of gestation was admitted to the lower extremities with facial edema, holocranial headache, nausea, epigastralgia, phosphenes, and photophobia, with a double-length uterine fundus for gestational age and ultrasonography. Obstetricians who showed images of snowflakes without fetuses and annexes had multiple thecal-lutein cysts. Atypical preeclampsia was identified using the severity data for complete hydatidiform moles. Given the possibility of serious complications that may endanger the life of the maternal-fetal binomial, atypical forms of preeclampsia should be suspected.
Background: Preeclampsia is defined as the elevation of blood pressure levels and any of the following severity criteria: proteinuria, thrombocytopenia, elevation of creatinine in the absence of another renal pathology, elevation of transaminases, pulmonary oedema or neurological symptoms. This after 20 weeks of gestation in a previously normotensive patient, however, cases of preeclampsia have been described in patients with less than 20 weeks of gestation associated with molar pregnancy.
Case description: A 26-year-old woman, with 14.1 weeks of gestation, is admitted with in the lower extremities, facial oedema, holocranial headache, nausea, epigastralgy, phosphenes and photophobia, with double-length uterine fundus for gestational age and ultrasound. obstetrician who showed image in snowflake, without foetus and annexes with multiple thecal-lutein cysts. Atypical preeclampsia was identified with severity data for complete hydatidiform mole.
Conclusion. Given the possibility of serious complications that may endanger the life of the maternal-foetal binomial, atypical forms of presentation of preeclampsia should be suspected.
Background: Preeclampsia is defined as the elevation of blood pressure and any of the following severity criteria: proteinuria, thrombocytopenia, elevation of creatinine in the absence of another renal pathology, elevation of transaminases, pulmonary edema, or neurological symptoms. However, after 20 weeks of gestation in a previously normotensive patient, cases of preeclampsia associated with molar pregnancy have been described in patients with less than 20 weeks of gestation.Case description : A 26-year-old woman, at 14.1 weeks of gestation, was admitted to the lower extremities with facial edema, holocranial headache, nausea, epigastralgia, phosphenes, and photophobia, with a doublelength uterine fundus for gestational age and ultrasound. Obstetricians who showed images of snowflakes, without fetuses and annexes, with multiple thecal-lutein cysts. Atypical preeclampsia was identified using the severity data for complete hydatidiform mole.
Conclusion.Given the possibility of serious complications that may endanger the life of the maternal-fetal binomial, atypical forms of preeclampsia should be suspected.
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