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Infection Theory of Eclampsia Reevaluated
Author(s) -
Ekwempu Christopher C.
Publication year - 1980
Publication title -
international journal of gynecology and obstetrics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.895
H-Index - 97
eISSN - 1879-3479
pISSN - 0020-7292
DOI - 10.1002/j.1879-3479.1980.tb00500.x
Subject(s) - medicine , eclampsia , sepsis , pregnancy , obstetrics , genetics , biology
One hundred eclamptic patients and an equal number of carefully observed parturient controls were investigated clinically, radiologically, hematological!)) and bacteriologically for evidence of infection on admission. At that time, 77% of the eclamptics, but none of the other group, were febrile (temperature > 38 C). Sepsis was evidently greater among the eclamptics than the controls. Significantly more eclamptic patients with fever had infections as well, compared to those who were nonfebrile. The association of fever and infection with eclampsia was so striking that the author speculates on the possibility of a cause‐and‐effect relationship.