Guidelines reviewed included: Hypertension in Pregnancy. Report of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists' Task Force on Hypertension in Pregnancy. 2013. ISBN 978-1-934984-28-4. The National Institute of Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) Clinical Guideline on Hypertension in Pregnancy: the management of hypertensive

A full literature search was not requested/required as this CKS topic is primarily based on the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) guideline, Hypertension in pregnancy: the management of hypertensive disorders in pregnancy (2010) and the Pre-eclampsia community guideline (2004). Hypertension in pregnancy (NICE clinical guideline 107) This clinical guideline contains recommendations for the diagnosis and management of hypertensive disorders during pregnancy in the antenatal, intrapartum and postnatal periods. NICE clinical guideline 107 - Hypertension in pregnancy: the management of hypertensive disorders during pregnancy 3 Introduction Hypertensive disorders during pregnancy occur in women with pre-existing primary or secondary chronic hypertension, and in women who develop new-onset hypertension in the second half of pregnancy. NICE first issued guidance for the management of hypertension in primary care in 2004. This was followed by a rapid update of the pharmacological treatment chapter of the guideline in 2006. The current partial update of the hypertension guideline is in response to the regular five year review cycle of existing NICE guidance. According to a 2010 guidance from the United Kingdom's National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE), 13,21 pregnant women with mild to moderate hypertension should undergo an initial ultrasonographic assessment of fetal growth and amniotic fluid volume at the time of diagnosis, then serially every 3 to 4 weeks. rate of eclampsia in the United Kingdom (UK) appears to have fallen, hypertension in pregnancy remains one of the leading cause