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Preeclampsia may compound growth restriction.(Obstetrics)

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PRAGUE -- Preeclampsia may significantly worsen some perinatal outcomes in growth-restricted infants, according to a review of infants born to mothers with and without preeclampsia.

In a study of growth-restricted neonates born at a gestational age older than 24 weeks, 25 infants whose mothers had preeclampsia had significantly worse psychomotor development on the Ages and Stages Questionnaire than did 46 infants born to mothers who did not have preeclampsia, Dr. Elisenda Eixarch reported in a poster session at the 20th European Congress of Perinatal Medicine.

In those neurologic evaluations, which were prospectively evaluated at 24 months, the children born to preeclamptic mothers scored at a significantly lower centile on the fine motor and problem-solving dimensions than did children of nonpreeclamptic mothers. The other three dimensions of the questionnaire (communication, gross motor, and personal-social) were worse in children of mothers with preeclampsia than in those of ...

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