Impaired neurovascular reactivity in the microvasculature of pregnant women with preeclampsia.

Karine Ferreira AgraIsabelle Eunice Albuquerque PontesJosé Roberto da SilvaJosé Natal FigueiroaGeraldine F CloughJoão Guilherme Bezerra Alves

Published in: Microcirculation (New York, N.Y. : 1994) (2018)

Women with PE are more than three times more likely to exhibit a reduced microvascular reactivity in the third trimester of pregnancy than normotensive pregnant controls. These differences may be attributable in part to an altered sympathetic neural microvascular tone in PE.

Keyphrases

pregnancy outcomes
pregnant women
preterm birth
early onset
gestational age