[Neurological diseases and pregnancy: what must the family physician heed?]

A woman in child-bearing age could principally contract a neurological disease during a pregnancy. The diseases are differentiated between those that existed before, such as migraines, epilepsy, multiple sclerosis or myasthenia gravis and diseases that have an increased incidence during pregnancy, for example stroke, thrombosis of a sinus, subarachnoid hemorrhage, restless legs syndrome or thoracic outlet syndromes and pregnancy specific diseases. The diagnostics and therapy of these diseases are limited by the pregnancy; contraindications must be observed.