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This clinical review provides an approach for hypertension specialists to evaluate and manage postpartum hypertension, addressing the lack of guidelines and decreased medical surveillance after delivery.
This clinical review provides an approach for hypertension specialists to evaluate and manage postpartum hypertension, addressing a gap in current guidelines.
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Supports specialist evaluation of postpartum hypertension amid guideline gaps; leaves open prospective trials to inform formal recommendations.
Hypertension can persist from pregnancy or present de novo in the postpartum period and continue to pose a risk to maternal well-being. These risks are magnified as many patients present after hospital discharge and go unrecognized because of decreased medical surveillance after delivery. Guidelines for the management of postpartum hypertension are lacking, often resulting in imprecise diagnoses and incorrect treatment strategies. As hypertension specialists are called upon to provide advice to obstetricians regarding the management of hypertension in the postpartum period, it becomes important for the hypertension specialist to develop expertise in the evaluation and treatment of hypertensive women during the postpartum period. The purpose of this clinical review article is to provide an approach to the management of postpartum hypertension.
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Ghuman et al. (2009) conducted a review in Postpartum hypertension. This clinical review provides an approach for hypertension specialists to evaluate and manage postpartum hypertension, addressing the lack of guidelines and decreased medical surveillance after delivery.
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