Consideraciones generales sobre la Enfermedad Hipertensiva del embarazo.

It was performed a revision article about some aspects of Hypertensive disease in pregnancy with the objective to update the topic and facilitate the educational information about the physiopathology, risk factors, prevention,  changes in different systems of the organism and their management. The bibliographical research was exhaustive, automatized in the magazines of the speciality that were published since 2003 to 2011, from every part of the world, in English or Spanish, circulating in the internet. It is concluded that until the current time the disease was maintained as a health problem that was not solved yet in the maternal infant care with several controversial aspects in the physiopathology, what brought difficulties in the prevention and precocious treatment of the disease.