Chronic Remote Ischemic Preconditioning as a Complement to Conventional Prenatal Care for Preeclampsia

Inclusion Criteria: * Singleton pregnancy * Gestational age between 24 0/7 and 36 6/7 weeks' gestation * Hospitalization for non-severe pre-eclampsia (non-severe hypertension = Systolic blood pressure between 140 and 160mmHg, diastolic blood pressure between 90 and 110mmHg associated with one of these: proteinuria \>=300mg/24h/thrombocytopenia 100-150G/L/central symptoms such as headache responding to standard analgesics/hyperreflexia without clonus/decreased fibrinogen/haptoglobin \<0.1/utero-placental dysfunction with IUGR and/or umbilical Doppler Class II) * Maternal age \>18 years * Good comprehension of French allowing easy understanding of the information protocol and the consent form Exclusion Criteria: * Chronic hypertension * Renal disease * Pre-pregnancy diabetes * Autoimmune disease (SAPL, SLE, Sjögren) * Severe PE (Systolic blood pressure \>160mmHg, diastolic blood pressure \>140mmHg, hepatic cytolysis at twice the norm, right hypochondrium or epigastric pain, central symptoms such as clonus or headache resistant to usual treatment or disturbed consciousness, thrombocytopenia \<100G/L, acute pulmonary edema, renal failure defined by doubling of baseline creatinine value or creatinine \>97 micromol/L) * Suspected fetal anomaly or malformation * HELLP syndrome * Eclampsia attack * Pathological fetal monitoring * Known maternal upper limb vascular anomaly * Severe maternal cardiac pathology * Maternal history of deep vein thrombosis of the upper limb