[LMB] there's a word for it

[Azalais Aranxta]

On Tue, 1 Aug 2006, Laura Gallagher wrote:

> > I've been trying for three days to remember the name of that toxic
> > condition of pregnancy where you get edema and seizures (high blood
> > pressure as well?)   Usually missing vocabulary comes floating back to
> > me at odd moments, but not this one.  Anybody?
> >
> > Ta, L.
>
> Depending on the stage of it, pre-eclampsia, eclampsia, toxemia.

You also get temporary renal failure and are something like ten
times as likely to have the placenta detach.

~malfoy, accomplished pre-eclamptic, now fixed.


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