Eclampsia

A hypertensive disease of pregnancy which affects one in ten women and is a major cause of maternal mortality. Eclampsia leads to brain and kidney damage.

75,000 women a year suffer eclampsia.

1. Pregnancy disorders
2. Hypertension

1. Toxaemias of pregnancy
2. Maternal mortality
3. Planned early births

1. Adolescent pregnancy

1. Lactation tetany in mares