Do you take any special considerations when working up a pregnant patient for secondary causes of hypertension?
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Nephrology · UAB Medicine
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Pregnancy does affect the approach to secondary causes of hypertension evaluation. Because of the relatively high prevalence of pre-eclampsia (3-5% of pregnancies), hypertension occurring after the 20th week of gestation with new proteinuria often does not require additional workup. Patients could b...
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