Hypertension in Pregnancy

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Abstract
IN discussions of hypertension in pregnancy the term "toxemias of pregnancy" has been discarded. Pre-eclamptic toxemia is the only potentially toxic syndrome, and even that has not been established. Hypertensive disease in pregnancy is classified in three groups, as follows: essential hypertension (patients with pre-existing vascular disease); renal disease (patients with pre-existing renal disease, with or without hypertension); and pre-eclamptic toxemia and eclampsia. It is believed that a superimposed pre-eclamptic toxemia is likely to occur in the first two groups. It is difficult to prove the development of a superimposed lesion on a pre-existing one, but because the early effects . . .

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