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Potential Complications During Pregnancy
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14. Nutrition: Pregnancy Through Infancy / Potential Complications During Pregnancy / Problem 7
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Which concise definition best distinguishes eclampsia from preeclampsia?
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Eclampsia is gestational diabetes complicated by ketoacidosis and seizures.
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Eclampsia is a term for any severe pregnancy-related infection that causes fever and convulsions postpartum.
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Eclampsia is preeclampsia with seizures.
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Eclampsia is high blood pressure in pregnancy that always resolves without treatment and never affects organs or causes seizures, making it a benign, self-limited hypertensive state specific to pregnancy and separate from preeclampsia in its pathogenesis and clinical course.
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