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Hemodynamic and neurohumoral profile in patients with different types of hypertension in pregnancy.
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PMID:  21116739     Owner:  NLM     Status:  In-Data-Review    
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Hypertension in pregnancy is a frequent disorder that includes a spectrum of conditions. We aimed at comparatively evaluating the hemodynamic, echocardiographic and biohumoral profile of a sample of pregnant Caucasian women with different form of pregnancy-related hypertension. We enrolled 39 non-hypertensive pregnant women (NP), 26 with Chronic HBP in pregnancy (CH), 24 with gestational hypertension (G-PIH), and 33 with pre-eclampsia. We recorded and compared blood pressure (BP), echocardiographic parameters, resting plasma renin activity (PRA) and plasma aldosterone (PA), Plasma levels of atrial (ANP) and brain natriuretic peptide (BNP). PE patients had a significantly higher BP than either G-PIH or NP patients. PE patients had also significantly lower cardiac output than NP, G-PIH and CH. In comparison to NP patients, the total peripheral vascular resistance was 61% higher in PE women and 38% higher in CH patients. All echographic parameters were significantly more altered in PE patients when compared with NP, in respect to any other form of hypertension. Either ANP (+35%) and BNP (+40%) were significantly higher in PE patients than in controls. The PRA was reduced in PE and CH patients when compared either with NP (-38 and -35%, respectively) or G-PIH (-47 and -43%, respectively). On the basis of our data, we can conclude that PE is the gestation associated hypertension with the largest anatomical, functional and biohumoral involvement, and so it has to be involved in a more intensive monitoring and evaluation.
Authors:
Claudio Borghi; Arrigo Francesco Giuseppe Cicero; Daniela Degli Esposti; Vincenzo Immordino; Stefano Bacchelli; Nicola Rizzo; Francesca Santi; Ettore Ambrosioni
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Publication Detail:
Type:  Journal Article     Date:  2010-11-30
Journal Detail:
Title:  Internal and emergency medicine     Volume:  6     ISSN:  1970-9366     ISO Abbreviation:  Intern Emerg Med     Publication Date:  2011 Jun 
Date Detail:
Created Date:  2011-05-23     Completed Date:  -     Revised Date:  -    
Medline Journal Info:
Nlm Unique ID:  101263418     Medline TA:  Intern Emerg Med     Country:  Italy    
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Languages:  eng     Pagination:  227-34     Citation Subset:  IM    
Affiliation:
Department of Internal Medicine, Aging and Kidney Diseases, S. Orsola-Malpighi University Hospital, 40138, Bologna, Italy, claudio.borghi@unibo.it.
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