The criteria of differential diagnostics of arterial hypertension in pregnant women
Based on clinical and instrumental examination of pregnant women with arterial hypertension it was necessary to fi nd out the most important differential diagnostic criteria between preeclampsia and chronic hypertension. The authors Identify the most informative indicators of the daily monitoring of blood pressure, Doppler utero-placental blood fl ow and biochemical, hemostasis parameters for the differential diagnosis of chronic hypertension and preeclampsia. According to the fi ndings they are: height of the pregnant woman, index of resistance in the uterine arteries, platelet count, soluble fi brinmonometric complexes, the content of total blood protein, creatinine, alkaline phosphatase, the index of hypertension, systolic blood pressure at night, the magnitude of the morning elevation of blood pressure. In differential diagnosis of hypertension during pregnancy 24-hour of BP, Doppler assessment of blood fl ow in the uterine arteries, the level of platelets, alkaline phosphatase, total blood protein and creatinine are of a high diagnostic value.