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  2. Hypertensive disease of pregnancy - Wikipedia

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    Monitoring pregnant women's blood pressure can help prevent both complications and future cardiovascular diseases. [31] [32] Even though high blood pressure and related disorders during pregnancy can be serious, most women with high blood pressure and those who develop preeclampsia have successful pregnancies.

  3. Peripartum cardiomyopathy - Wikipedia

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    Symptoms usually include one or more of the following: orthopnea (difficulty breathing while lying flat), dyspnea (shortness of breath) on exertion, pitting edema (swelling), cough, frequent night-time urination, excessive weight gain during the last month of pregnancy (1-2+ kg/week; two to four or more pounds per week), palpitations (sensation of racing heart-rate, skipping beats, long pauses ...

  4. List of medical abbreviations: H - Wikipedia

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    HELLP syndrome (Hemolysis, elevated liver enzymes, low platelets in pregnancy) HEMA: hydroxy ethyl methacrylate, a material in soft contact lenses: Hema: hematest – e.g. hema (-) – fecal occult blood: HES: hydroxyethyl starch: HETE: hydroxyeicosatetraenoic acid: HEV: hepatitis E virus: HF: heart failure: HFpEF: heart failure with preserved ...

  5. Gestational Hypertension - Wikipedia

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    Gestational hypertension or pregnancy-induced hypertension (PIH) is the development of new hypertension in a pregnant woman after 20 weeks' gestation without the presence of protein in the urine or other signs of pre-eclampsia. [1]

  6. Fetal-maternal haemorrhage - Wikipedia

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    It takes place in normal pregnancies as well as when there are obstetric or trauma related complications to pregnancy. Normally the maternal circulation and the fetal circulation are kept from direct contact with each other, with gas and nutrient exchange taking place across a membrane in the placenta made of two layers, the syncytiotrophoblast ...

  7. Pre-existing disease in pregnancy - Wikipedia

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    Hypercoagulability in pregnancy is the propensity of pregnant women to develop thrombosis (blood clots) such as a deep vein thrombosis with a potential subsequent pulmonary embolism. Pregnancy itself is a factor of hypercoagulability (pregnancy-induced hypercoaguability), as a physiologically adaptive mechanism to prevent post partum bleeding. [7]

  8. Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy screening - Wikipedia

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    Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy screening is an assessment and testing to detect hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM). [1] [2]It is a way of identifying HCM in immediate relatives of family members diagnosed with HCM, and athletes as part of a sports medical. [3]

  9. Signs and symptoms of pregnancy - Wikipedia

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    Signs and symptoms of pregnancy are common, benign conditions that result from the changes to the body that occur during pregnancy. Signs and symptoms of pregnancy typically change as pregnancy progresses, although several symptoms may be present throughout. Depending on severity, common symptoms in pregnancy can develop into complications ...