[Assessment of unbalance in water compartments of patients with gestosis].

The water-sector misbalance was studied in 53 puerperants. The method of bio-impedance spectrometry was made use of to determine the total body water, extra-cellular- cellular- and interstitial water as well as the circulating blood volume. The levels of extra-cellular and interstitial water were found to be reliably higher in patients with moderate gestosis on day 1 after delivery versus healthy subjects. Stable trends towards normalizing the volumes of extra-cellular and interstitial water were registered by day 5. As for patients with sever gestosis, a reliably increasing total body water as well as extra-cellular and interstitial water persisted in them by day 5 after delivery versus the controls.