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SUBMITTER: Tallarek AC
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4651150 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Geburtshilfe und Frauenheilkunde 20121201 12
Preeclampsia is a multisystem disease for which the exact causes have not yet been sufficiently clarified. However, in the past few years it has become clear that a placental imbalance between angiogenic and anti-angiogenic proteins is the decisive pathogenetic factor for the occurrence of preeclampsia. With the possibility to measure these angiogenic factors (sFlt-1/PlGF ratio) in maternal blood full new diagnostic possibilities have been opened that enable the certain diagnosis or exclusion of ...[more]