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Postpartum cerebellar infarction and haemolysis, elevated liver enzymes, low platelet (HELLP) syndrome.
Neurological sciences : official journal of the Italian Neurological Society and of the Italian Society of Clinical Neurophysiology - 1 Apr 2005
Altamura C, Vasapollo B, Tibuzzi F, Novelli G P, Valensise H, Rossini P M, Vernieri F
Abstract excerpt
Pregnancy is considered to be a hypercoagulable state per se with an increased risk for cerebrovascular events, however cerebellar infarction has been rarely described in pregnant women. A nulliparous pre-eclamptic woman at 25 weeks' gestation was submitted to an echocardiographic exam that showed an impaired cardiac structure and function. After 2 h, the patient underwent caesarean section for diagnosis of...
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