Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care (Jan 2019)

Successful management of severe preeclampsia major complications: Case report

  • Svetlana Shikanova,
  • Bakyt Karimova,
  • Mukhit Sarsembayev,
  • Ibrahim A Abdelazim,
  • Tatyana Starchenko,
  • Mariya Bekzhanova

DOI
https://doi.org/10.4103/jfmpc.jfmpc_377_19
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 6
pp. 2147 – 2149

Abstract

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Severe preeclampsia (PE) have considerable adverse outcome especially in low-resource countries. A 21-year-old pregnant woman with severe PE and intrauterine fetal death, delivered by cesarean section (CS). The CS complicated by atonic postpartum hemorrhage (PPH). She was transferred by the air ambulance to the tertiary center of West Kazakhstan University-intensive care unit, once she developed anuria. She was carefully monitored after exclusion of maternal sepsis and HELLP (hemolysis, elevated liver enzymes and low platelet) syndrome and she developed postpartum eclampsia and right partial lobe intracranial hemorrhage (ICH). She was managed by multi-disciplinary team with proper and clear management plan and discharged from the hospital on the 20th postpartum day in good general condition. The complications of severe PE need clear multi-disciplinary team management plan to avoid the adverse outcome of the severe PE.

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