Gravidez, puerpério e doença vascular cerebral

• Autor(a) principal: Fukujima, Marcia Maiumi [UNIFESP]
• Data de Publicação: 1996
• Outros Autores: Oliveira, Roberto De Magalhães Carneiro de [UNIFESP], Shimazaki, Jean Carlos [UNIFESP], Lima, José Geraldo de Camargo [UNIFESP]
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UNIFESP
• Texto Completo: http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/S0004-282X1996000200006; http://repositorio.unifesp.br/handle/11600/423
• topic: pregnancy; puerperium; stroke; cerebral infarction; cerebral hemorrhage; cerebral venous thrombosis; Chagas¹ disease; gravidez; puerpério; acidente vascular cerebral; infarto cerebral; hemorragia cerebral; trombose venosa cerebral; doença de Chagas

Six patients who presented cerebrovascular disease during puerperium or pregnancy were studied. One of them presented hemorrhagic stroke caused by intracerebral bleeding due to pre-eclampsia. Three patients presented ischemic stroke, they all had positive serologic reactions for Chagas' disease, but only two of them had clinical cardiopathy; one of these patients had anticardiolipin antibody. The other two patients presented cerebral venous thrombosis of sagittal sinus. Both were smokers and one of them used oral contraceptive. We emphasize the importance of clinical investigation to seek for the common causes of cerebrovascular disease in young people, with special attention to Chagas disease in Brazil.