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Spontaneous internal carotid artery dissection: an uncommon cause of recurrent postpartum headache

Elefterios Stamboulis1, Georgios Raptis, Athina Andrikopoulou

  • 1Second Department of Neurology, University of Athens School of Medicine, Attikon Hospital, Athens, Greece. lstam@med.uoa.gr

Journal of Neuroimaging : Official Journal of the American Society of Neuroimaging
|May 21, 2009
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Postpartum spontaneous cervicocephalic artery dissection is an uncommon, poorly understood condition following pregnancy. We report a case of a 32-year-old woman with no history of trauma, chiropractic manipulation, connective tissue disorder, or previous headache who developed a mild, unilateral headache 7 days after the uneventful delivery of her third child (no general or neuraxial anesthesia was delivered). Seven days latter she presented to our emergency department complaining of recurrent episodes of right-sided headache coupled with a transient episode of sensory deficits in her left lower limb. Brain magnetic resonance imaging disclosed small infarctions in the internal watershed distribution of right internal carotid artery (ICA). Carotid artery dissection was diagnosed using DSA and T1 FAT-SAT sequences for the depiction of intramural hematoma. The patient was placed under oral anticoagulation and remained asymptomatic during a follow-up period of 6 months. The present case report highlights that cervicocephalic artery dissection is a condition that should be looked for in women with persisting or remitting unilateral headache following childbirth.

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