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Postpartum headache, seizures and bloodstained C.S.F.: a possible complication of dural puncture?

M P Vercauteren1, G J Vundelinckx, G H Hanegreefs

  • 1Department of Anesthesiology, University Hospital Antwerp, Edegem, Belgium.

Intensive Care Medicine
|January 1, 1988
PubMed

A 32-year-old parturient developed severe headache with subsequent convulsions on the third day after the delivery under epidural anesthesia. Neuroradiological investigations were negative. All complaints disappeared promptly after the performance of an epidural blood patch.

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