Role of Mean Platelet Volume in Prediction of Preeclampsia

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Department Obstetrics & Gynecology department, Faculty of Medicine, Al-Azhar University

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Background: preeclampsia (PE) is a pregnancy-specific multisystem disorder that is characterized by development of hypertension and proteinuria with or without body edema after twenty weeks of gestation, resolving by 6-12 weeks postpartum in previous normotensive women. Objectives: comparing complete blood count (CBC) parameters especially Mean platelet volume (MPV), in pre-eclamptic and normal pregnant women in the third trimester of pregnancy and to evaluate whether this parameter has a prognostic significance in determining the severity of preeclampsia. Methods: The study was conducted at alhussein university hospital. It included 150 pregnant women. They were assigned to 2 groups: 1st group: 34 pregnant women with preeclampsia, and 2nd group: 116 normal pregnant women free of any medical disorders Results: The current study showed no statistically significant difference between PE compared to normal pregnancy (with p-value >0.05 NS). Conclusions: we have found that MPV values do not have any determining effect on the presence of preeclampsia. Recommendation: The results of this study recommend that MPV has no prognostic significance in determining preeclampsia, although large-scale clinical studies and longitudinal study of platelet size changes through gestations are still awaited and fixing methods and methods used for an automated blood count.

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The Egyptian Journal of Hospital Medicine
Volume 73, Issue 10
October 2018
Pages 7834-7841

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