%0 Journal Article %T Marcadores s¨¦ricos de trombofilias heredit¨¢rias e anticorpos antifosfol¨ªpides em gestantes com antecedentes de pr¨¦-eclampsia grave %A Figueir¨®-Filho %A Ernesto Antonio %A Oliveira %A Vanessa Marcon de %A Coelho %A L¨ªlian Rezende %A Breda %A Ili %J Revista Brasileira de Ginecologia e Obstetr¨ªcia %D 2012 %I Federa??o Brasileira das Sociedades de Ginecologia e Obstetr¨ªcia %R 10.1590/S0100-72032012000100008 %X purpose: to determine the frequency and the association of serum markers for inherited and acquired thrombophilias in pregnant women with a history of severe pre-eclampsia in previous pregnancies. methods: case-control study consisting of 81 pregnant women with a history of severe pre-eclampsia in previous pregnancies (study group) and 32 women with no history of severe pre-eclampsia in previous pregnancies (control group). the presence of inherited thrombophilia and antiphospholipid antibodies was screened in both groups. we used the chi-square test with yates correction to assess associations and calculate the relative risks. results: the presence of thrombophilia was detected in 60.0% of patients with a previous history of pre-eclampsia and in 6.0% of the control patients. a significant association was found between pre-eclampsia in a previous pregnancy and the presence of markers for hereditary thrombophilia/antiphospholipid antibodies (p<0.05). the relative risk to develop pre-eclampsia was found to be 1.57 (1.34