Neonatal outcome in pre-eclamptic patients.

Background: Pre-eclampsia (PE) is defined as hypertension (blood pressure of 140/90 mm Hg on two occasion 4-6 hour apart or single reading of diastolic blood pressure of >110 mm Hg) and proteinuria developing after 20 weeks of pregnancy up to 6 weeks post partum in previously normotensive, non-proteinuric women. The aim of this study was to determine the neonatal outcome in babies born ofpre-eclamptic patients.

Methods: It is a cross-sectional comparative study and was carried out in department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology unit C of Ayub Teaching Hospital, Abbottabad from 1st January 2007 to 30th June 2007.