Prevention & early detection of common pregnancy disorders

The previous chapters provided an overview of the normal maternal adaptation to pregnancy. This information was then used as a reference to discuss the pathophysiology of common pregnancy disorders in seemingly healthy women and women with a preexistent chronic disorder. This final chapter summarizes the options to early identify in these two subgroups those women that are really at high risk to develop (one of) these complications, followed by a description of the options to prevent these complications to develop or at least, to minimize their clinical impact in case they do develop anyway.