[The morphofunctional characteristics of the deciduous membrane in pregnancy edema].

An analysis of DNA content in decidua cells and decidua cell number in compact decidual layer was performed in 19 women with physiological pregnancy and labour, in 31 women with oedema of pregnancy, in 29 women with light and in 11 women with severe pre-eclampsia. Significant difference in DNA content in the group with oedema of pregnancy and in the groups with other gestosis forms was demonstrated. Thus, a conclusion is made that oedema may have an independent genesis.