Medicine Grand Rounds feature weekly topic and case-based presentations designed to provide faculty and trainees with up-to-date knowledge about timely issues in internal medicine.

Faculty Name: Dr. Phyllis August

Title of Talk: Hypertension in Pregnancy

Learning Objectives:

• Differentiate the major hypertensive disorders of pregnancy—including chronic hypertension, gestational hypertension, preeclampsia, and preeclampsia with severe features—based on diagnostic criteria, timing, and clinical presentation.

• Apply evidence-based management strategies for hypertension in pregnancy, including appropriate blood pressure thresholds for treatment, selection of safe antihypertensive medications, and indications for inpatient management or expedited delivery.

• Identify maternal and fetal complications associated with hypertensive disorders of pregnancy and implement strategies for surveillance, prevention, and postpartum follow-up, including recognition of long-term cardiovascular risk.