Pregnancy after direct cerebral bypass for moyamoya disease.

CONCLUSIONS: The authors present neurological and obstetric outcomes data in a large cohort of MMD patients. These data indicate that post-bypass pregnancy is accompanied by low complication rates. There were no ischemic or hemorrhagic strokes among post-bypass pregnant MMD patients. The rate of obstetric complications was low overall. The authors recommend close collaboration between the vascular neurosurgeon and the obstetrician regarding medical management, including blood pressure goals and continuation of low-dose aspirin.
PMID: 31731267 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: Journal of Neurosurgery - November 14, 2019 Category: Neurosurgery Authors: Church EW, Qaiser R, Bell-Stephens TE, Bigder MG, Chow EK, Han SS, El-Sayed YY, Steinberg GK Tags: J Neurosurg Source Type: research