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Lead
Duke University
Age
18–45
Sex
FEMALE
Healthy volunteers
Accepted
You may be eligible if
Symptoms of central nervous system dysfunction (New onset cerebral or visual disturbance, such as: Photopsia, scotomata, cortical blindness, retinal vasospasm)
Severe headache (ie, incapacitating, "the worst headache I've ever had") or headache that persists and progresses despite analgesic therapy
Altered mental status
Hepatic abnormality (Severe persistent right upper quadrant or epigastric pain unresponsive to medication and not accounted for by an alternative diagnosis or serum transaminase concentration ≥ twice normal, or both)
Severe blood pressure elevation (Systolic blood pressure ≥160 mmHg or diastolic blood pressure ≥110 mmHg on two occasions at least four hours apart while the patient is on bedrest (unless the patient is on antihypertensive therapy))
Thrombocytopenia (\<100,000 platelets/microL)
Renal abnormality (Progressive renal insufficiency (serum creatinine \>1.1 mg/dL or doubling of serum creatinine concentration in the absence of other renal disease))
Pulmonary edema
15 English-speaking pregnant controls with uncomplicated pregnancy matched by age and gestational age will be enrolled from the antenatal clinic or the labor ward.
You may not be if
History of symptomatic cerebrovascular disease with substantial residual deficit
History of alcoholism
History of psychiatric illness
History of claustrophobia
Renal failure (creatinine \> 2.0 mg/dl)
Patients with less than a 7th grade education or unable to read and thus unable complete the neuropsychological testing
