HELLP Syndrome: a biopsychosocial case report

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dc.contributor.authorDeonarine, Felicia
dc.date.accessioned2024-09-12T10:32:35Z
dc.date.available2024-09-12T10:32:35Z
dc.date.issued2024
dc.description.abstractThis case concerns a 30 year old female patient (HS), G2P1 (2 gravidity, 1 parity), who was admitted to the high dependency unit at Cork University Maternity Hospital in Cork, Ireland at 37 weeks and 1 days’ gestation. She was admitted after experiencing a 5 minute tonic-clonic seizure at home with no obvious relieving factors. Relevant positive symptoms included nausea, headache, and right hypochondrial pain. Relevant negative symptoms included denying tongue biting, incontinence, speech or visual disturbances, sensory or mental aura, vomiting and cyanosis. There were no drugs, trauma, recent illness or history of previous seizures. On examination, HS was confused and displayed signs consistent with pregnancy. In addition, a focused examination revealed hypertension, hyperreflexia, right hypochondrial pain, and lower limb oedema. The investigations included a urine dipstick, CT scan and blood tests which showed anaemia, low platelets and proteinuria. The history, examination and investigations in this case were consistent with a presentation of HELLP (haemolysis, elevated liver enzymes and low platelets) syndrome.  In this case report, the biopsychosocial aspects of the patient’s recovery are discussed.en
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dc.identifier.citationDeonarine, F. (2024) 'HELLP Syndrome: a biopsychosocial case report', UCC Student Medical Journal, 4, pp. 100-103. https://doi.org/10.33178/SMJ.2024.1.11en
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.33178/SMJ.2024.1.11
dc.identifier.endpage103
dc.identifier.issn2737-7237
dc.identifier.journalabbrevUCC SMJ
dc.identifier.journaltitleUCC Student Medical Journalen
dc.identifier.startpage100
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/16338
dc.identifier.urihttps://journals.ucc.ie/index.php/smj/article/view/4128
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherUCC Medical Research and Technology Societyen
dc.rights© 2024, the Author(s). This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.en
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
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dc.subjectHELLP Syndromeen
dc.subjectCase reporten
dc.subjectObstetricsen
dc.titleHELLP Syndrome: a biopsychosocial case reporten
dc.typeArticle (peer-reviewed)en
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