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Hypertension in pregnancy--2--eclampsia
1Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University of Zimbabwe Medical School, Harare, Zimbabwe.
The Central African Journal of Medicine
|October 6, 2000
Abstract:
Eclampsia is a grand mal convulsion associated with pregnancy-induced hypertension. It is caused by cerebral hypoxia from intense vasospasm combined with cerebral oedema. CT scans show cerebral ischaemia from thrombosis and oedema.