ECLAMPSIA WITHOUT CONVULSIONS TERMINATING IN CEREBRAL APOPLEXY
- 7 January 1933
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in JAMA
- Vol. 100 (1) , 15-16
- https://doi.org/10.1001/jama.1933.02740010017003
Abstract
The use of the term "eclampsia without convulsions" has engendered a great deal of discussion, even though it has the sanction of many authors. Williams1defines eclampsia as an acute toxemia, usually but not always accompanied by convulsions. On the other hand, DeLee2states that eclampsia is not a disease by itself but only a symptom, the most outstanding one, of several underlying diseases. He recommends that the term "eclampsism" be used to cover all cases of toxemia in late pregnancy, which, if untreated or not properly treated, may lead to convulsions or coma, or both. The confusion is the result of the ignorance that surrounds this clinicopathologic complex. There is still, unfortunately, no better term than "toxemia" to describe the condition of women who are sick, who have one or several different poisons in their tissues, manifested by vomiting, by a kidney lesion or severe liver damage,Keywords
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