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STUDY AND COMPARISON OF LIVER FUNCTION TESTS IN PRE-ECLAMPSIA AND ECLAMPSIA WITH NORMAL HEALTHY PREGNANT WOMEN

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Brungi Asha Jyothi1 , Madupathi Anil Babu2

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Background:Preeclampsia is a multisystem disorder, which occurs only in pregnant women during the second and third trimesters of pregnancy and is associated with raised blood pressure and proteinuria. It rarely presents before 20 weeks of gestation like in hydatidformmole.Eclampsia is a syndrome with one or more episodes of convulsions in association with preeclampsia. In India, the national incidence of hypertensive disorders is 15.2%,with incidence in nulliparous women being four times greater than in multipara.Liver Function Test (LFT) abnormalities occur in 3% of the pregnancies, and preeclampsia is the most frequent cause6.In HELLP syndrome, an elevation in liver function test results is noted7. Periportal hemorrhagic necrosis in the periphery of the liver lobule is probably the lesion that causes elevated serum liver enzymes.AIM: To Study and compare liver function tests in Pre-eclampsia and Eclampsia with normal healthy pregnant women and assess the ante-partum severity in both the diseases.

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