Medical Complications in Pregnancy

* Many changes occurs to female body during the pregnancy period, due to the hormonal changing:

* Some of the medical complications of pregnancy can include:

1- Hypertension:
- Very common and blood pressured becomes 140/90 mm Hg or greater.

- Hypertention is a dangerous complication that may effect both fetus and mother.
- Hypertensive pregnant women must rest as much as possible and treated with anti-hypertensive treatment.

2- Blood Hypercoagulability:
- Excessive thickening of blood, which can lead to venous thrombosis (occlusion of blood vessels),
- Disseminated Intravascular Coagulopathy (A rare, life-threatening condition that prevents a person’s blood from clotting normally).

3- Anemia:

- A deficiency of red blood cells. 

- Expansion of the blood volume may cause an apparent anemia but in about 20%.

- True anemia develops, mainly because of fetal demands for iron and folate.

- Pregnancy may complicate a pre-existing Anemias, especially the Sickle Cell Anemia.

4- Supine Hypotension Syndrome.

- In later pregnancy up to 10% of female patients may become hypotensive, if laid in supine position for 3 to 7 mins, when the gravid uterus compresses the Inferior Vena Cava and impedes blood return to the heart and may lead to syncope.

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