Summary: Thirty-one cases of ischaemic cerebral stroke occurring in association with childbirth were fully investigated. The Patients and Methods During the 10-year period 1956-65 a total of 523 patients were discharged fromn the neurosurgical unit at Killearn Hospital with the diagnosis of ischaemic carotid territory stroke. Twenty-three of the whole series were women who were pregnant or puerperal at the time of their stroke. During the same period 27 other pregnant or puerperal women were referred for investigation-1 had spontaneous intracranial haemorrhage, 9 tumours of the central nervous system, and 7 a variety of mtracranial conditions, including epilepsy and cerebral abscess.
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