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Postpartum cerebral angiopathy: atypical features and treatment with intracranial balloon angioplasty.

Song JK, Fisher S, Seifert TD, Cacayorin ED, Alexandrov AV, Malkoff MD, Grotta JC, Campbell MS

Center for Endovascular Surgery, Hyman-Newman Institute for Neurology and Neurosurgery, 1000 Tenth Avenue, New York, NY 10019, USA. jsong@chpnet.org

Postpartum cerebral angiopathy (PCA) is an uncommon cause of ischemic and hemorrhagic stroke in young women. It is usually clinically benign and not relapsing. We describe a patient with nonhemorrhagic PCA who had an atypical progressive neurological deficit from bilateral hemisphere watershed ischemia despite treatment with aggressive medical therapy and intracranial balloon angioplasty.

Published 2 May 2005 in Neuroradiology, 46(12): 1022-6.
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