Predisposing factors for preeclampsia in patients aged 20 to 30 years

Abstract

Introduction: More than half a million women died in 2009 during pregnancy or at the time of childbirth; however, maternal mortality has fallen by less than one percent per year globally. Objective: To study the predisposing factors of Preeclampsia in patients between 20 and 30 years of age. Materials and Methods: Documentary, descriptive, cross-sectional study, systematic review type, which included studies with specific data on patients with preeclampsia in electronic databases whose sources are Scielo, Mediplus and specific online documents. Results: Regarding the ages, in the range of 20 to 22 years of age there was an incidence of 17%; in the range of 22 to 23 years, 35%; from 24 to 25 years old, 48%. Analyzing the obstetric history, of which 73% had previous cesarean sections and only 27% previous normal births. On the other hand, 96% were multiparous and only 4% primiparous. Conclusion: Maintaining a watchful waiting policy generally includes inpatient care with corticosteroids for fetal lung maturation, magnesium sulfate (as needed), antihypertensives (as needed), and careful fetal and maternal monitoring to identify indications for delivery ( for example, uncontrolled hypertension, deterioration of the state of the mother and the fetus, including organ dysfunction and fetal distress).