MODEL RELEASED. Monitoring blood pressure during labour. A doctor uses a sphygmomanometer to measure a woman's blood pressure during labour. Blood pressure rises during pregnancy and falls after the birth. Unusually high blood pressure may be sign of pre-eclampsia,which affects about 7% of pregnancies. Untreated pre-eclampsia can lead to eclampsia,a condition characterised by violent convulsions followed by coma and,in some cases,death. Mild pre-eclampsia is treated by anti-hypertensive drugs. More severe cases may require induction of labour or Caesarean section. Photographed at the Academic Medical Centre at the University of Amsterdam,the Netherlands | |
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Credit: | Science Photo Library / Sormani, Horacio |
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