Talk:HELLP syndrome

Medicine Mid‑importance

	Medicine portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject Medicine, which recommends that medicine-related articles follow the Manual of Style for medicine-related articles and that biomedical information in any article use high-quality medical sources. Please visit the project page for details or ask questions at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Medicine.MedicineWikipedia:WikiProject MedicineTemplate:WikiProject Medicinemedicine articles
Mid	This article has been rated as Mid-importance on the project's importance scale.

Women's Health

	This article is within the scope of WikiProject Women's Health, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of Women's Health on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.Women's HealthWikipedia:WikiProject Women's HealthTemplate:WikiProject Women's Healthwomen's health articles
???	This article has not yet received a rating on the importance scale.

Ideal sources for Wikipedia's health content are defined in the guideline Wikipedia:Identifying reliable sources (medicine) and are typically review articles. Here are links to possibly useful sources of information about HELLP syndrome.

PubMed provides review articles from the past five years (limit to free review articles)
The TRIP database provides clinical publications about evidence-based medicine.
Other potential sources include: Centre for Reviews and Dissemination and CDC

ICD10 code

For reference, a source for the ICD10 code is here (Word/RTF file format): --Arcadian 14:35, 17 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Heineman 2003 reference

I've been unable to find the Heineman 2003 reference. Is it a book? MJ Heineman is the most plausible author. JFW | T@lk 06:45, 7 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Searching for books is similarly negative. JFW | T@lk 06:52, 7 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Table removed

I have removed the table, as no reference could be found despite another search.

**Risk factors for HELLP syndrome** (Heineman, 2003)^{[citation needed]}
Condition	Relative risk
Chronic hypertension	x10
Diabetes	x2
Auto-immune diseases (lupus erythematodes disseminatus, anti-phospholipid syndrome)	10
Chronic renal failure	x20
Thrombophilia caused by Protein S deficiency, activated protein C deficiency, Factor V Leiden deficiency or hyperhomocysteinaemia	x1

I was wondering if the original inserter could be so kind as to share the full academic reference with us. JFW | T@lk 07:18, 29 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, I haven't added this table to the article, but I know the book which is referred to. We're using it at our faculty. Its data:

Authors: M.J. Heineman, O.P. Bleker, J.L.H. Evers, A.P.M. Heintz
Title: Obstetrie en gynaecologie (De voortplanting van de mens)
My edition: fourth (2002)
Publisher data: Elzevier Gezondheidszorg, Maarssen 2001
ISBN: 90-352-2394-2
The table is at: page 260, table 11-4

Hope this is enough info, otherwise let me know :) Greets, A. Rad 13:23, 19 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

ICD9 Code

I added 642.53 as ICD9 code for two reasons:

According to this: http://www.nzhis.govt.nz/documentation/mapping/mappingfiles.html it is the direct translation of O14.1.
When looking on the WHO website, all O14.1 have as a description is "Severe pre-eclampsia", which look pretty much the same, to me at least, than the ICD9 description. Aristiana 11:07, 25 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

HELLP syndrome is a stand-alone clinical entity, but when coding for ICD-9 is needed for insurance/statistical purposes, O14.1 is a reasonable choice. Still, Weinstein only described this condition after ICD-9 came out, so it would be an anachronism to link to O14.1. Still, if others feel this is too fussy, we can always do it. JFW | T@lk 06:56, 26 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Delivery?

I was taught that delivery of the placenta as opposed to delivery of the baby/fetus is the cure. Can someone be bothered to find a source? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 129.31.11.31 (talk) 11:05, 9 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Prognosis in infants

The "Prognosis" section says:"However, up to 60% of infants born to affected mothers do not survive". The reference is to the Preeclampsia Foundation website. What it says there is : "Overall perinatal mortality from HELLP Syndrome (stillbirth plus neonatal death) ranges from 7.7 to 60%." Now, that's a huge range! And what does "ranges" mean? From one country to another? According to maternal age? According to gestational age? There's no way of knowing, but we can't just summarise it as "up to 60% of infants born to affected mothers do not survive". That says "if you have HELLP, the odds are 3:2 against your baby surviving", which is plain wrong. Scolaire (talk) 22:22, 11 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Are you aware of a better source? Clearly we should either be quoting that range or come up with something a lot better than a website. JFW | T@lk 23:40, 11 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Done. --Scolaire (talk) 21:23, 13 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Perfect. Nice work. JFW | T@lk 18:05, 15 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

"Lauren Bloomstein" listed at Redirects for discussion

A discussion is taking place to address the redirect Lauren Bloomstein. The discussion will occur at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2021 June 2#Lauren Bloomstein until a consensus is reached, and readers of this page are welcome to contribute to the discussion. JFW | T@lk 20:06, 2 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]