[Arterial hypertension during pregnancy. 531 cases treated in one centre (author's transl)]

Between 1977 and 1979, 531 consecutive cases of hypertension complicating pregnancy were observed at the Maternité de Port-Royal, Paris. All patients were treated preferentially with methyldopa, and most women with moderate hypertension were treated as out-patients. Perinatal mortality in these hypertensive women was the same as for normotensive women who delivered at the Maternité and for the French population as a whole during the same period.