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Question about preeclampsia

Hi everyone. I was just wondering if anyone knows if there is a link between preeclampsia and hep c? Just curious.

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I personally haven't heard of or noticed a link between the two.

However--Hepatitis (and other liver problems--fatty liver, etc) can cause an elevation in LFTs and can be mistaken for Pre Eclampsia.

I actually began suggesting Hep Antibodies as part of the lab work for women who come back with large amt's of protein in the urine.

We just had a 20 year old who was diagnosed with Pre Eclampsia due to her elevated ALT and AST and protein in the urine. BPs were generally fine. BUT--her dx was retracted and changed once it came back that she actually had a fatty liver (sono).

Another woman (immigrant) was thought to have PreEclampsia, but it turned out she had Hep A.

Good luck!

We have an unusually high number of pre-eclamptic patients at our hospital (high risk) and very few of them have Hepatitis C.

I know of no direct correlation or link between Hep C and pre-eclampsia. If anyone does, I would be interested in reading the literature, if you can point me to it!

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There is a very interesting article on current research into preeclampsia in, of all places, this week's (7/24/06) issue of The New Yorker. The article's not available on-line, but TNY is widely available in libraries and on newsstands.

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