Pre-eclampsia is a syndrome that is common, dangerous for both mother and baby,
unpredictable in its onset and progression, and untreatable except by terminating the
pregnancy. Because its pathogenesis is undefined there is no specific diagnostic test; it is
recognized by the concurrence of pregnancy-induced changes that regress after delivery, of
which hypertension and proteinuria are both the easiest to recognize and the signs by which
it is defined. However the pre-eclamptic syndrome is more polymorphic than the …