Making case for life-saving pre-eclampsia prediction test
Royal Women's Hospital Making the case for more hospitals to adopt life-saving pre-eclampsia prediction test PHOTO: Katie James lost her daughter Ivy due to pre-eclampsia. Thanks to the Women’s care and expertise in pre-eclampsia, she and husband Stewart went on to have two further children after Ivy. A test predicting the potentially fatal pregnancy condition, pre-eclampsia, has reached a milestone in its use at the Royal Women’s Hospital – the first hospital in Australia to study and rollout use of the test. The Pre-eclampsia Ratio Test – known as the PERT test – has now been comp...