title: Successful pregnancy, epidural anaesthesia, labour, and delivery in a woman with Sturge-Weber syndrome and previous hemispherectomy.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  The outcomes of pregnancy and subsequent delivery of healthy neonates in women who have undergone previous near total hemispherectomy for Sturge-Weber syndrome (SWS) have rarely been reported.
  
  
  METHODS
  A woman with SWS had two successful and uncomplicated pregnancies and deliveries under epidural anaesthesia after undergoing a near total hemispherectomy with subsequent unilateral cerebral palsy. Non-contrast MRI of the brain revealed post hemispherectomy changes with no residual meningeal angiomatosis.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  As more women who undergo surgical resection for underlying SWS grow into the child-bearing years, additional reports of pregnancy and delivery outcomes in this patient population can be expected and will be valuable.
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurology, The Hospital for Sick Children, University of Toronto, Toronto ON.
authors.forename: Aly Shah
authors.initials: AS
authors.lastname: Aziz
authors.affiliation: Department of Obstetrics and Maternal Fetal Medicine, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, University of Toronto, Toronto ON.
authors.forename: Dini
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Hui
authors.affiliation: Department of Anaesthesia, Women's College Hospital, University of Toronto, Toronto ON.
authors.forename: Vinod
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Chinnappa
authors.affiliation: Department of Medical Imaging, Sunnybrook Health Science Centre, University of Toronto, Toronto ON.
authors.forename: Richard I
authors.initials: RI
authors.lastname: Aviv
authors.affiliation: Department of Medicine (Neurology), Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, University of Toronto, Toronto ON.
authors.forename: Richard H
authors.initials: RH
authors.lastname: Swartz
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000767:Anesthesia, Epidural; D001921:Brain / Q000473:pathology; D002547:Cerebral Palsy / Q000150:complications; D036861:Delivery, Obstetric; D005260:Female; D038421:Hemispherectomy; D006801:Humans; D007743:Labor, Obstetric; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D011247:Pregnancy; D013341:Sturge-Weber Syndrome / Q000150:complications*
keywords: Sturge-Weber syndrome; anaesthesia; cerebral palsy; epidural; hemispherectomy