Maternal cerebral hemodynamics in pregnancy‐related hypertension. A prospective transcranial Doppler study

Abstract

Considerable differences in cerebral hemodynamics were observed in the various types of pregnancy-related hypertensive disorders examined in this study. Our findings in patients with pre-eclampsia/eclampsia syndrome suggest a breakdown of autoregulation with hyperperfusion and vasogenic edema being the most probable pathophysiological mechanism.