Clinical Trial: Ophthalmic Artery Doppler in the Puerperium After Hypertensive Disorders of Pregnancy (OPHELIA-PP)

U.S., Sept. 26 -- ClinicalTrials.gov registry received information related to the study (NCT07841795) titled 'Ophthalmic Artery Doppler in the Puerperium After Hypertensive Disorders of Pregnancy (OPHELIA-PP)' on Sept. 16.

Brief Summary: Hypertensive disorders of pregnancy frequently fail to resolve at delivery. A substantial proportion of women remain hypertensive at the six-week postnatal review, postpartum eclampsia occurs days to weeks after birth, and a minority show persisting renal dysfunction. Attendance at postnatal follow-up is nonetheless poor and specialist resources are limited, so a simple bedside test that identified the women whose cardiovascular recovery is incomplete would allow surveillance to be targeted.

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