Endocrine Abstracts

The four major hypertensive disorders in pregnancy are preeclampsia/eclampsia/HELLP syndrome, gestational hypertension, chronic hypertension and pre-eclampsia superimposed on chronic hypertension. The prevalence of hypertension in pregnancy has been reported to be around 6%. The commonest aetiology was found to be gestational hypertension which made up 40% of all cases. To our knowledge, secondary causes of hypertension in pregnancy has never been well described. We present a ...