The value of serum-lipd peroxides in patients with preeclampsia

The endothelial dysfunction is considered to be a main cause of the classic clinical features of preeclampsia: hypertension, edema, proteinuria and activated hemostasis.A many ten uteroplacental compounds that may mediate disturbance of the maternal endothelium a lipid products, in particular lipid peroxides are incriminated.There are evidence of deficiency in the protective antioxidant mechanism or increased utilization of antioxidants in preeclampsia compared with normal pregnancy, which increase the level of lipid peroxidation products, that may cause peroxidative damage of vascular endothelium and result in…