Kubo Shigeki, Nakata Hiroyuki, Tatsumi Toshiaki, Yoshimine Toshiki
Department of Neurosurgery, Takarazuka Municipal Hospital, Japan.
Headache. 2002 Apr;42(4):297-300. doi: 10.1046/j.1526-4610.2002.02087.x.
We report a case of postpartum cerebral angiopathy with headache; a rare entity that affects women within the early postpartum period. Cerebral angiography revealed multiple segmental narrowings of major cerebral arteries. The patient was monitored with transcranial color-coded sonography of the middle cerebral artery. Abnormally increased flow velocity within the middle cerebral artery decreased following initiation of steroid therapy, and the patient's headache improved dramatically.
