Proteinuria as a predictor of complications of pre-eclampsia

Proteinuria is a defining criterion for the diagnosis of pre-eclampsia. The amount of protein lost per day has been thought by some to predict both maternal and fetal outcome. The systematic review of 16 primary papers including over 6700 patients by Thangaratinam and colleagues published this month...

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Autores principales: Hofmeyr, G Justus, Belfort, Michael
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2009
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2667402/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19317890
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1741-7015-7-11
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description Proteinuria is a defining criterion for the diagnosis of pre-eclampsia. The amount of protein lost per day has been thought by some to predict both maternal and fetal outcome. The systematic review of 16 primary papers including over 6700 patients by Thangaratinam and colleagues published this month in BMC Medicine suggests otherwise. This finding may influence our management of pre-eclampsia.
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spelling pubmed-26674022009-04-10 Proteinuria as a predictor of complications of pre-eclampsia Hofmeyr, G Justus Belfort, Michael BMC Med Commentary Proteinuria is a defining criterion for the diagnosis of pre-eclampsia. The amount of protein lost per day has been thought by some to predict both maternal and fetal outcome. The systematic review of 16 primary papers including over 6700 patients by Thangaratinam and colleagues published this month in BMC Medicine suggests otherwise. This finding may influence our management of pre-eclampsia. BioMed Central 2009-03-24 /pmc/articles/PMC2667402/ /pubmed/19317890 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1741-7015-7-11 Text en Copyright © 2009 Hofmeyr and Belfort; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License ( (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0) ), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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title_full Proteinuria as a predictor of complications of pre-eclampsia
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