Instrumentos de la Guía de Práctica Clínica: Diagnóstico y Tratamiento de la preeclampsia y eclampsia en el embarazo, parto y puerperio

ABSTRACT Gestational hypertension is a type of hypertension that oc-curs for the fi rst time after the 20 weeks of gestation without signifi cant proteinuria. There are four categories of hyperten-sion in pregnant women. Preeclampsia is characterized by the presence of hypertension and signifi cant proteinuria, those occurring after the 20th week of pregnancy. Preeclampsia associated with other diseases is not always synonymous of severe preeclampsia. We reserve the term of sever when add-ing clinical and laboratory markers of severity. In women with preeclampsia aggregated or associated with other disease states. Signi fi cant proteinuria is the amount of protein in urine ≥ 300 mg of protein in a urine collection of 24 hours. Also called signi fi cant proteinuria when the ratio of urinary protein creatinine ratio is ≥ 30 mg/mmol. Eclampsia is characterized by the occurrence of generalized tonic and clonic seizures not attributed to other causes in women with preeclampsia. Key words: Preeclampsia, eclampsia, gestational hyper-tension, proteinuria.