clinical utiliy of serum uric acid measurement in pre-eclampsia

ABSTRACT

To evaluate the accuracy of serum uric acid to predict maternal and fetal complications in women with pre-eclampsia. Prospective study. Setting: Tikrit Teaching Hospital. Fifty normtensive and forty-three pre-eclamptic pregnant women at [20-24] weeks of gestation were the study subject, serum concentrations of uric acid were measured and examine the correlations, between serum uric acid level with fetal and maternal complicatipons. Serum concentration of uric acid in pre-eclamptic women significantly highr than in gestrational age match normotensive pregnant women, and women with pre-eclampsia and elevated uric acid concentration at increased risk of low birth weight, preterm delivery and cesarean, delivery compared with each condtion an absence of hyperuricemia. Hypervricemia consider a good predictor to select group of pre-eclamptic women with high risk for fetal and maternal complications