[Studies on the symptoms of EPH-gestosis patients one month after delivery].

We investigated 1805 puerperants, after the twenty-fourth-week of pregnancy, who delivered from January 1st, 1981 till December 31st, 1982 in our hospital. 271 pregnancies were diagnosed as EPH-gestosis according to the new diagnostic standard in Japan (prevalence 15%). The severer the type of EPH-gestosis that had been diagnosed during pregnancy, the more symptoms they showed and the more often complications were diagnosed one month after delivery. In mild type as well as in severe type EPH-gestosis patients, if they had more than one symptom one month after delivery, they were more frequently diagnosed as having complications in pregnancy. In addition, those who had one or more symptoms one month after delivery often had shown symptoms of EPH-gestosis earlier in pregnancy. There were no significant correlations between the symptoms one month after delivery and the age of the mother, or between these symptoms and the time of delivery. Furthermore there was no significant correlation between these symptoms and the frequency of neonatal asphyxia, or the frequency of intrauterine death. These data suggest that symptoms one month after delivery of EPH-gestosis have some relation to complications in pregnancy.