Maternal cognitive functioning after pregnancies complicated by preeclampsia- Analysis of current evidence

Abstract

Objective: Preeclampsia (PE) is a multi-organ disease affecting 0.5 – 5% of all pregnancies and the most significant cause of neurological symptoms during the peripartum period. Although numerous clinical studies assess neurocognitive outcome of children born to mothers with PE and various animal models of PE dealing with mechanisms and symptoms of this disease exist, there is a lack of basic and clinical research analyzing cognitive performance of mothers after PE.