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Introduction Preeclampsia is a multiorgan disease specific to pregnancy most often characterized by hypertension and proteinuria occurring after 20 weeks gestation. It is among the most common medical complication of pregnancy and is a leading cause of maternal/fetal morbidity and…
Editors' comment: When Chesley wrote his original monograph, he, like most of the scientific community, was unfamiliar with the concept of angiogenesis. Even in the multiauthored second edition, in which the endothelial cell hypothesis of preeclampsia was first proposed, the…