Prediction of the preeclampsia: a view of biochemical markers

Mehmet Sühha Bostancı, Merih Bayram, Arif Serhan Cevrioğlu, Selçuk Özden, Nermin Akdemir, Sedat Umur

DOI: https://doi.org/10.7175/rhc.v4i4.699

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Preeclampsia is a diverse, multiorgan group of related disease processes that occurs in up to 5%-8% of pregnancies after 20 weeks’ gestation and it is one of the leading causes of maternal and fetal morbidity and mortality. Many molecular mechanisms are contributed to the pathogenesis of preeclampsia. Although it is unknown whether the mechanisms act independently or have synergistic effects. This review describes review of primary papers investigating blood based biomarker such as PAP-A, Inhibin A, sFlt1, and PP13 in general and first trimester biochemical markers and combinations of them specifically for preeclampsia.

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Preeclampsia; Biochemical markers; Pregnancy-associated placental protein A

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