title: Fatal cerebral infarction after intraventricular hemorrhage in a pregnant patient with moyamoya disease.
abstract: Moyamoya disease is a progressive occlusive cerebrovascular disorder of unknown etiology. We describe a case of a fatal cerebral infarction after intraventricular hemorrhage in a 29-year-old primipara with moyamoya disease. The patient had been stable for about 10 days after the initial hemorrhage, but she showed a fulminant clinical course of cerebral infarction, and died on the 16th day after the initial hemorrhage. Abnormality in coagulation system and/or cerebral vasospasm may have resulted in such a fulminant clinical course. A possible pathogenesis of this rare condition is discussed.
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurosurgery, Institute of Clinical Medicine, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8575, Japan.
authors.forename: Yasunobu
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Nakai
authors.forename: Akio
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Hyodo
authors.forename: Kiyoyuki
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Yanaka
authors.forename: Tadao
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Nose
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D002533:Cerebral Angiography; D002543:Cerebral Hemorrhage / Q000150:complications* / Q000473:pathology; D002544:Cerebral Infarction / Q000209:etiology* / Q000473:pathology; D017809:Fatal Outcome; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D009072:Moyamoya Disease / Q000150:complications*; D011247:Pregnancy; D011249:Pregnancy Complications, Cardiovascular / Q000209:etiology* / Q000473:pathology