[Relationship between hypertensive states and perinatal prognosis in abruptio placentae]

Ninety-one occurrences of abruptio placentae were analyzed by the Department of Obstetrics of the São Paulo School of Medicine in São Paulo, Brazil during a ten-year period, from 1979 to 1988. The purpose was to analyze perinatal prognosis and its relation to hypertensive states. The authors observed that arterial hypertension was present in 75% of the cases, most of which chronic arterial hypertension; they also observed that perinatal mortality increased in the presence of high arterial blood pressure.