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Potential markers of preeclampsia – a review
- Source :
- Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology, Vol 7, Iss 1, p 70 (2009)
- Publication Year :
- 2009
- Publisher :
- BMC, 2009.
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Abstract
- Abstract Preeclampsia is a leading cause of maternal and fetal/neonatal mortality and morbidity worldwide. The early identification of patients with an increased risk for preeclampsia is therefore one of the most important goals in obstetrics. The availability of highly sensitive and specific physiologic and biochemical markers would allow not only the detection of patients at risk but also permit a close surveillance, an exact diagnosis, timely intervention (e.g. lung maturation), as well as simplified recruitment for future studies looking at therapeutic medications and additional prospective markers. Today, several markers may offer the potential to be used, most likely in a combinatory analysis, as predictors or diagnostic tools. We present here the current knowledge on the biology of preeclampsia and review several biochemical markers which may be used to monitor preeclampsia in a future, that, we hope, is not to distant from today.
- Subjects :
- Gynecology and obstetrics
RG1-991
Reproduction
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 14777827
- Volume :
- 7
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- Directory of Open Access Journals
- Journal :
- Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- edsdoj.392d8f2a00454993bd52bde3c4ab986f
- Document Type :
- article
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1186/1477-7827-7-70