eclampsia
Noun
Meaning
A fancied perception of flashes of light, a symptom of epilepsy; hence, epilepsy itself; convulsions.
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The review of maternal deaths highlighted the direct evoked causes of reported maternal deaths: hemorrhage (delivery hemorrhage), severe infections, postoperative complications (pelvic peritonitis), and eclampsia.
Among those risks are acute kidney failure, bleeding disorders, and Eclampsia in the mother, as well as the premature separation of the placenta from the uterine wall and fetal death.
He further said that eclampsia can follow a condition of high blood pressure and excess protein in the urine during pregnancy (preeclampsia).