A woman who has hypertension and proteinuria (i.e. pre-eclampsia) for the last month of pregnancy delivers at 38 weeks. The infant appears wasted but has a birth weight between the 10th and 90th percentiles. The Apgar scores were low and the infant required resuscitation. What was the probable cause of the neonatal asphyxia?

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Preeclampsia is most likely what caused the newborn asphyxia in this case A pregnancy problem known ... View the full answer