What is the difference between hellp and preeclampsia?

Depends: Are 2 different syndromes yet interdependent. Hellp is progressing more rapidly than preeclampsia sometimes, and when diagnosted delivery is always the way out. In preeclampsia depending on stage you can delay the delivery more or less.

May be a part of Pre: Up to 20 % of pregnant women with severe pre eclampsia or eclampsia will also have hellp syndrome. The cause is unknown, usually before 37 wks preeclampsia by definition is high blood pressure and protein in the urine that presents in woman after 20 weeks of pregnancy. Hellp as the letters stand for is: h= hemolysis (when red blood cells break down, el= elevated liver enzymes, p= low platelets.