Placental doppler scan - does a high pressure reading mean you will encounter difficulties?

[Artigene]

Having had very mild pre-eclampsia with my first pregnancy, and nothing in my second, I am getting high pressure readings in my third. My consultant says we just need to keep an eye so I was quite relaxed but today a friend who is a consultant pead says she thinks I will have to deliver a couple of months early if I am showing problems already (24 weeks). Does anyone know anything about this?

Watching with interest. I have one of these scans on Tuesday due to PE in last pregnancy (I'm 30 weeks). I wasn't referred to the consultant when I should have been so it's later than MW recommended - hopefully all will be fine.

Not necessarily! I had PE in my previous pregnancy & delivered at 29 weeks. I had a Doppler on Tuesday & all looked well. However the consultant told me that she does not have great confidence in the accuracy of their predictive value, to the point where the consultants have debated whether it's worthwhile doing them at all.

Sorry, should have added that I was specifically talking about uterif artery dopplers, as opposed to umbilical dopplers.

Thats good to know Cheese. Mine was a uterine artery doppler, I didn't know there were different types. Mine showed high pressure but no notching. The lack of notching is apparently a good sign. I do however already have 1+ protein but that could be an infection.

our obs cons don't use uterine artery dopplers at all. BP, urine analysis and growth scans are the best route.
at 24 weeks a Doppler scan cannot be done for your baby anyhow, they are not reliable until 27 weeks.
having had severe pre eclampsia and eclampsia with both pregnancies the protein was the first sign from 5 mths with both ds's. then i had high BP then their growths tailed off. I was induced early with both.. two little 5lb boys one of whom is now taller than me :(

op - are you on aspirin ?

No Worley, I am not, as I have a stomach ulcer and my previous PE was late onset and didn't reoccur in pregnancy two.

Is 1+ protein rare at 24 weeks does anyone know? My BP is fine.

Artigene - I've had 1+ protein a couple of times this pg but all has been fine. It's usually an infection or contamination from discharge. MW said its higher levels that are a concern, but they will monitor it anyway.