title: [Clinical and chemical laboratory course of HELLP syndrome--a retrospective analysis].
abstract: The HELLP-Syndrom (hemolysis, elevated liver enzymes, low platelet count) is considered as a severe complication of eclampsia with unpredictable development of pregnancy including high maternal and fetal risk. The result of retrospective analysis of all deliveries of the years 1986-1991 at the UFK Marburg were 28 cases of proved HELLP-Syndrom. Medical history, correlation of clinical and laboratory findings as well as the development of the disease and the neonatal dates were evaluated by computerized documentation. The incidence of HELLP-Syndrom was 28 of 8111 deliveries at all (0,34%). 82% of the women with HELLP-Syndrom were primiparae. The leading symptom was right upper abdominal pain in 75%, which lasted already 5,7 days before presentation in the clinic. Hypertonus, edema and proteinuria were present in 71%, 61% and 89% of the cases. The diagnosis indicating laboratory finding was the thrombocytopenia (mean 62 G/l). In comparison to the thrombocytes, which were at the 4.-7. day pp in 89% within the normal range, the liver function tests normalized just between the 9. and 13. day pp (SGOT 89%, SGPT 77%). The shortening of the prepartal hospitalization from 6 days in 1986/87 to 8 hours in 1990/91 decreases the periand postnatal complication rate from 43% to 23%. 26/28 patients (92%) were delivered by caesarean section from healthy babies through which were 75% premature infants and in 27% of the cases small for gestational age additionally. We conclude that the decrease of the diagnosis-delivery interval and the intensive medical care are responsible for the diminution of the maternal and neonatal mortality rate to 0%.
authors.affiliation: MZ für Frauenheilkunde und Geburtshilfe, Philipps-Universität Marburg.
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Schwerk
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Schmidt-Rhode
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Zimmermann
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Hackenberg
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Prinz
mesh_terms: D000006:Abdomen, Acute / Q000209:etiology; D000328:Adult; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D017359:HELLP Syndrome / Q000097:blood / Q000175:diagnosis*; D006801:Humans; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D008111:Liver Function Tests; D008297:Male; D010976:Platelet Count; D011247:Pregnancy; D011256:Pregnancy Outcome; D012016:Reference Values; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D012307:Risk Factors
vernacular_title: Klinischer und laborchemischer Verlauf des HELLP-Syndroms--eine retrospektive Analyse.