What is preeclampsia?

Preeclampsia is pregnancy-related hypertension, or high blood pressure, that develops after 20 weeks during your pregnancy. While doctors still don’t know exactly what causes preeclampsia to develop, they do know that there is only one certain cure: delivery.

In this video, Prisma Health provides essential information on preeclampsia, including signs and symptoms, treatments that can help lower blood pressure to continue gestation until a safe time to deliver, what happens when you are hospitalized for preeclampsia, what happens if preeclampsia goes untreated and ways of testing for this potentially life-threatening pregnancy complication.