VEGFA and preeclampsia: It has been shown that aberrant expression and/or function of angiogenic factors, e.g., vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) and its receptors, e.g., soluble VEGF receptor 1, also called soluble fms-like tyrosine kinase-1 (sFlt1), play a major role in the pathogenesis of preeclampsia [1,7].