Ischemic stroke during pregnancy and puerperium represents a rare occurrence but it could be a serious and stressful event for mothers, infants, and also families. Whenever it does occur, many concerns arise about the safety of the mother and the fetus in relation to common diagnostic tests and therapies leading to a more conservative approach. The physiological adaptations in the cardiovascula...

Mondor's disease is a rare entity characterized by sclerosing thrombophlebitis classically involving one or more of the subcutaneous veins of the breast and anterior chest wall. It is usually a self-limited, benign condition, despite of rare cases of association to cancer. We present the case of a 32 year-old female, breast-feeding, who went to emergency due to left mastalgia for the past week....

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The efficacy and safety of various modes of medical treatment for primary hyperparathyroidism (PHPT) in pregnancy is largely unknown. This report describes two cases of PHPT in pregnancy that were temporarily treated with the calcimimetic cinacalcet. The first case was diagnosed in the 31st week of pregnancy. The patient was asymptomatic and had an albumin-corrected total calcium level (Ca(corr...

For the management of acute thrombotic events in pregnancy therapeutic doses of low molecular weight heparins (LMWH) may be used, unless the shorter half-life of intravenous unfractionated heparin (UH) and predictable reversibility by protamine are important. Treatment should be continued up until delivery and into the puerperium. Pregnant women who have had an acute thrombotic event should be ...

Pregnancy-associated stroke is rare but is considered an important cause of morbidity and mortality in women of childbearing age. Previous studies dealing with the incidence of pregnancy-associated stroke have been performed using hospital-based, population-based, and nationwide methods, and most have been conducted in Western countries and Taiwan. The reported studies vary a great deal with re...

A 22-year-old woman required emergency mitral valve replacement three weeks post partum because of thrombotic obstruction of her prosthetic mitral valve. Low dose subcutaneous heparin was administered from the 17th week of pregnancy. Though there was a successful fetal outcome, heparin did not prevent thrombosis on the prosthesis and its continuation into the puerperium proved nearly fatal.

Introduction: Cerebral venous thromboembolism is a serious condition whose diagnosis and management in the emergency department vital. Although cerebral (CVT) not as common lower extremities (VTE) or pulmonary embolism (PE), several cases were reported literature that linked it to both, COVID-19 puerperium, they are at origin of hypercoagulable state.