Leukocytosis Is Proportional to HELLP Syndrome Severity: Evidence for an Inflammatory Form of Preeclampsia

AbstractBackgroundWe investigated the possibility that HELLP syndrome is in part a systemic inflammatory response.Methods.We evaluated total white blood cell (WBC) counts of all patients with severe preeclampsia with and without HELLP syndrome admitted to our hospital between 1995 and 1997. Patients