Eric George

By Eric R. George, Ph.D. This is the fourth and final article in a series of articles, the first titled An Introduction to Polymeric Materials for Medical Devices, the second, Polymeric Materials and Coronary Angioplasty Devices, and the third, The Evolution of Polymeric Materials in Vision Care and Ophthalmology. Those articles provide background information and context that aid the understanding of the current article.

A growing body of literature suggests that immune system dysfunction has a role in both the development of preeclampsia and the downstream manifestations of the disease (1–3). The maternal immune system undergoes many changes over the course of pregnancy to prevent a maternal immune response to paternal antigens and establish a cooperative status with semiallogeneic trophoblast cells, all while maintaining defenses against pathogens (4). It was proposed by Sargent et al.