Chronic Hypertension – elevations of blood pressure diagnosed before 20 weeks of pregnancy or persists until 12 weeks postpartum Gestational Hypertension – new onset blood pressure elevations diagnosed after 20 weeks AOG without proteinuria Pre-Eclampsia – BP elevations after 20 weeks AOG and proteinuria of <+3 by urine dipstick or <5g protein in 24 hour urine collection Severe Pre-Eclampsia – pre eclampsia that is characterized by any of the following: taken from: POGS CPG on Hypertensive Complications of Pregnancy Eclampsia – hypertension in pregnancy with proteinuria with convulsions or occurrence of grand-mal seizures Chronic Hypertension with superimposed Pre-Eclampsia – elevations of BP with pregnancy that persists postpartum with associate signs of pre-eclampsia; may also be diagnosed by new onset proteinuria in a known hypertensive woman, or by the development of HELLP syndrome
Chronic Hypertension elevations of blood pressure diagnosed
before 20 weeks of pregnancy or persists until 12 weeks
postpartumGestational Hypertension new onset blood pressure
elevations diagnosed after 20 weeks AOG without
proteinuriaPre-Eclampsia BP elevations after 20 weeks AOG and
proteinuria of
