Duarte MJ, Ezeta MME, Sánchez RG, Lee-Eng V, Romero FS

Language: Spanish
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Page: 99-108
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ABSTRACT

Maternal-perinatal mortality remains high worldwide. The costs of care have also increased alarmingly. There are well-established risk factors associated with the possibility of a pregnancy being complicated by pre-eclampsia; however, once diagnosed there are no criteria that help identify those patients with the possibility of developing severity criteria. Many of the risk factors associated with the development of pre-eclampsia are found more frequently in patients who develop severity criteria, but especially these patients develop the disease at early gestational age. There is a great deal of evidence as to the utility of dividing pre-eclampsia according to the gestational age to which it is presented, considering that pre-eclampsia is more a syndromic complex with different presentations than a single disease with different states of gravity. It is necessary and urgent to identify those factors that can safely predict the development of complications in patients with pre-eclampsia.