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Describing in the first part the principles of differential diagnosis of preeclampsia, the authors focus the reader's attention on the variety of possible causes of severe hypertension (more than 160/110 mm Hg) during pregnancy and present a program for differential diagnosis. At the same time, theoretical concepts of the pathogenesis of severe hypertension that develop after the first 20 weeks of pregnancy in connection with hereditary chronic hypertension, kidney disease, renovascular hypertension, primary aldosteronism and other conditions that must always be considered when hypertension occurs in a pregnant woman are convincingly substantiated.