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.
Also Known As:
Preeclampsia; Pregnancy Toxemia; EPH Complex; EPH Gestosis; EPH Toxemias; Edema-Proteinuria-Hypertension Gestosis; Gestosis, EPH; Hypertension-Edema-Proteinuria Gestosis; Preeclampsia Eclampsia 1; Pregnancy Toxemias; Proteinuria-Edema-Hypertension Gestosis; Toxemia Of Pregnancy; 1, Preeclampsia Eclampsia; 1s, Preeclampsia Eclampsia; EPH Toxemia; Eclampsia 1, Preeclampsia; Eclampsia 1s, Preeclampsia; Edema Proteinuria Hypertension Gestosis; Gestosis, Edema-Proteinuria-Hypertension; Gestosis, Hypertension-Edema-Proteinuria; Gestosis, Proteinuria-Edema-Hypertension; Hypertension Edema Proteinuria Gestosis; Of Pregnancies, Toxemia; Of Pregnancy, Toxemia; Pre Eclampsia; Preeclampsia Eclampsia 1s; Pregnancies, Toxemia Of; Pregnancy, Toxemia Of; Proteinuria Edema Hypertension Gestosis; Toxemia Of Pregnancies; Toxemia, EPH; Toxemia, Pregnancy; Toxemias, EPH; Toxemias, Pregnancy