A 21-year-old pregnant woman with hypertension and proteinuria

Andrea Luk; Ronald C W Ma; Ching Wan Lam; Wing Hung Tam; Anthony W I Lo; Enders K W Ng; Alice P S Kong; Wing Yee So; Chun Chung Chow

doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.1000037

A 21-year-old pregnant woman with hypertension and proteinuria

PLoS Med. 2009 Feb 24;6(2):e1000037. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1000037.

Authors

Andrea Luk¹, Ronald C W Ma, Ching Wan Lam, Wing Hung Tam, Anthony W I Lo, Enders K W Ng, Alice P S Kong, Wing Yee So, Chun Chung Chow

Affiliation

¹ Department of Medicine and Therapeutics, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, New Territories, Hong Kong, China.

Abstract

Ronald Ma and colleagues describe the differential diagnosis, investigation, and management of a 21-year-old pregnant woman presenting with hypertension and proteinuria at 20 weeks of gestation.

Publication types

Case Reports

MeSH terms

3-Iodobenzylguanidine
Abdominal Neoplasms / complications
Abdominal Neoplasms / diagnosis*
Abdominal Neoplasms / drug therapy
Abdominal Neoplasms / surgery
Carotid Body Tumor / diagnosis
Cesarean Section
Diagnosis, Differential
Female
Humans
Hypertension / etiology*
Incidental Findings
Infant, Newborn
Iodine Radioisotopes
Neoplasms, Multiple Primary
Paraganglioma, Extra-Adrenal / complications
Paraganglioma, Extra-Adrenal / diagnosis*
Paraganglioma, Extra-Adrenal / drug therapy
Paraganglioma, Extra-Adrenal / surgery
Phenoxybenzamine / therapeutic use
Pre-Eclampsia / diagnosis
Pregnancy
Pregnancy Complications / etiology*
Pregnancy Complications, Neoplastic / diagnosis*
Proteinuria / etiology*
Tomography, X-Ray Computed
Young Adult

Substances

Iodine Radioisotopes
Phenoxybenzamine
3-Iodobenzylguanidine