a 33-year-old woman with severe postpartum headache

Authors

hosein delavar kasmaei

alireza baratloo assistant professor of emergency medicine, shohadaye tajrish hospital,shahid beheshti university of medical sciences, tehran, iran.

maryam soleymani

abstract

patient was a 33-year-old woman underwent her first time cesarean section combined with spinal epidural anesthesia 5 days before and discharged the day after with good condition. she got severe headache with pain score about 8-9, 2 days after discharge from hospital. her headache was severe, bilateral, pulsatile and almost likely sudden onset accompanied with nausea that mildly progressed after starting. she went to the hospital which her delivery was taken; with impression of post dural puncture headache (pdph) 10mg iv morphine sulfate was administered totally and subsequently discharged home with relative decreased headache. the day after first headache attack, when she admitted in our hospital, claimed that could not hold her baby for breast feeding. in minimental status examination, time disorientation was obvious but orientation to place and person was intact. in motor examination we found right side hemiparesis and also decreased right upper and lower limbs tone. brain ct scan and then mri was performed and reveal massive cortico-subcortical hemorrhagic infarction on left parieto-occipital lobes. with attention due to significant nonhomogene occupying lesion, brain mri with gadolinium and also mrv was per-formed. what is your doagnosis?

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