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eclampsia /eclamp·sia/ (e-klamp´se-ah) convulsions and coma, rarely coma alone, occurring in a pregnant or puerperal woman, and associated with hypertension, edema, and/or proteinuria.eclamp´tic uremic eclampsia that due to uremia.
eclampsia a syndrome including convulsions and coma occurring in animals soon after birth of the young. bitch eclampsia see puerperal tetany. mare eclampsia see lactation tetany (2). puerperal eclampsia see puerperal tetany. sow eclampsia a poorly defined condition of older sows after farrowing which responds to treatment with calcium and magnesium. |
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| Reasons for these high death rates include eclampsia, postpartum hemorrhage, HIV infection, malaria, and obstructed labor. Greater proportions of women who had had a cesarean experienced medical complications in their second pregnancies, including anemia, cardiac disease, diabetes, chronic hypertension, preeclampsia, eclampsia and placental disorders. According to WHO, the most common direct causes of these deaths are severe bleeding (25 percent), infection (15 percent), ravages of an unsafe abortion (13 percent), eclampsia (12 percent), and obstructed labor (8 percent). |
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