Science and Education Publishing American Journal of Medical Sciences and Medicine 2327-6657 2 1 2014 02 24 Gestosis: Ophthalmologic Peculiarities 25 28 EN Galina Bratko Ekaterina Pichikova Novosibirsk Branch Federal State Institution, "Intersectoral Research and Technology Complex""Eye microsurgery", Novosibirsk, Russia Aleksandr Trunov Valery Chernykh AJMSM2014216 10.12691/ajmsm-2-1-6 2014 01 30 2014 02 17 2014 02 24 The most interesting studies of perfusion-diffusion deficiency in the morpho-functional system mother-placenta-fetus available in women with pre-eclampsia and eclampsia are just described in this review. The main cause of vascular endothelium damage is vasospasm and an accelerated formation of free radicals in women's with pre-eclampsia. The ophthalmological peculiarities mentioned in the article are such as follows: irregular spasm of small arterioles, including normal pregnancy cases, is usually described with a method of conjunctive vessels biomicroscopy. The most common method of ophthalmological examination is ophthalmoscopy. Pathologic changes of retina and retinal vessels in women with gestosis are most similar to the changes observed in the eyes of patients with essential hypertension. Pregnant women are in a group of risk because of arterial hypo- and hypertension, anemia and gestosis, providing the expressed deficiency of blood circulation of eye.