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How Preeclampsia Is Diagnosed
The way we diagnose preeclampsia is first, look at the degree of swelling, or edema, that mothers are having and sometimes this is best established by looking at the degree of weight gain. Generally about a pound a week in the latter part of the p...
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Preeclampsia vs. Pregnancy-Induced Hypertension
Preeclampsia vs. Pregnancy-Induced Hypertension Well preeclampsia for a long time has gone by different names and toxemia is the lay person’s term for preeclampsia. Some people may hear the term ‘PIH’ thrown about and PIH is really in archaic term...
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The Importance of Early Diagnosis for Child Hypertension
High blood pressure - it's the stuff only old folks have to worry about, right? Think again. Just 1 in 5 kids with hypertension are diagnosed while the rest face heart failure, or worse.
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Common Risk Factors Associated with Preeclampsia
Well the risk factors are several; younger women under age 15, women who are older, over age 35, women who have multiple gestations so twins, triplets, quadruplets, all are at risk, women who have a history of preeclampsia with previous pregnancie...
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How Preeclampsia Is Treated
Once preeclampsia is diagnosed then the treatment of the preeclampsia will vary depending on the age or stage of which the pregnancy is. Most preeclampsia is diagnosed around or during the time of delivery so proceeding on with delivery of a baby ...
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How does atherosclerosis cause vascular disease?
The term ``atherosclerosis'' refers to the build up fatty, waxy deposits called plaque in arteries. The arteries are the blood vessels that carry blood containing oxygen throughout the body. If the build up of plaque is large enough, blood flow ca...
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How is peripheral artery disease (PAD) treated?
In peripheral artery disease, or PAD, fatty material called plaque builds up inside the walls of arteries that supply blood and oxygen to your limbs, especially your legs. Plaque can reduce blood flow, so the muscle cells in your legs don't get th...
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What Happens When Preeclampsia Is Not Treated
Some of the things that can, the reason that we approach preeclampsia so aggressively in terms of monitoring for its, whether it’s there and to diagnose it and then to manage it aggressively and treat is because if preeclampsia isn’t diagnosed or ...
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Reoccurring Preeclampsia in Other Pregnancies
Reoccurring Preeclampsia in Other Pregnancies The recurrence risk of preeclampsia can vary and a lot of it depends upon pre-existing risk factors. So for example, if a woman is obese or a woman has poorly controlled diabetes or prior bad chronic h...
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Preeclampsia Defined
Preeclampsia Defined Well preeclampsia is a disease seen only in pregnancy and it’s marked quite simply by elevated blood pressures with the systolic blood pressure, the top number, of at least 140 or greater and/or the bottom number, or diastolic...
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How is peripheral artery disease (PAD) diagnosed?
In peripheral artery disease, or PAD, fatty material called plaque builds up inside the arteries that supply blood and oxygen to your legs. The plaque can reduce the blood flow, so the muscle cells in your legs don't get the oxygen they need, caus...
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Treating Obesity with Bariatric Surgery
Rhonda Day: I have never being in normal weight, never, ever been a normal weight. Host: Its not secret obesity is one of America's biggest health concerns. One third of American adult are over weight or obese, 5-10 million of them are considered ...
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Underlying Comorbid ED Conditions
Is the presence of ED sometimes an indication of a preexisting secondary (comorbid) condition? Randall B. Meacham: One of the exciting things about the area of erectile dysfunction, we are now just becoming aware of is that not only is sexual dysf...
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How to Prevent Heart Disease on Valentines' Day
Alexis: We do not practice prevention, we respond to fear. That is basically how we take care of ourselves when it comes to disease. So, we will go out and work out really like to look good, but will we change our diet to prevent heart disease. [M...
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The Difference Between Preeclampsia and Toxemia
The terminology for preeclampsia can often be confusing. It’s often called preeclampsia, toxemia, PIH, or pregnancy induced hypertension, and PET. Primarily the terminology we should use is preeclampsia or eclampsia. Toxemia is a general term, imp...
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The Causes of Preeclampsia
Well at this point we are not entirely sure. We do believe that it is related to blood flow to the placenta. The placenta, we think of as, we often think of as primarily a structure that’s a conduit to and from baby and mother; provides oxygen, re...
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Preeclampsia Patient Success Story - Dr. Mills
There are many of them and some of them are success stories not in the way that you would think of successes in our business. I think some of the first things that motivated me to get started and look at those successes was in early part of my tra...
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What Is Preeclampsia
I am Marlin Mills. I am a specialist in high-risk obstetrics, particularly maternal-fetal medicine and work at the Banner Medical Center at Desert in the Mesa East Valley area of the greater Phoenix area. I see patients throughout the area of Phoe...
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When Preeclampsia Appears
When Preeclampsia Appears Well preeclampsia can occur throughout pregnancy, but we rarely see it before 20 weeks. If we do see it that early it’s usually associated with a major chromosome issue with the fetus such that the woman has what’s called...
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Stopping Pulmonary Hypertension
Jennifer Matthews: For nine weeks, Tammy Russell has been here at the bedside of her 15-year-old son, Kyle. Kyle loves the beach and vacations. But like many children with Down Syndrome, heart problems slow him down. This is his third time in the ...
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