Epidemiology of neurologic disease in pregnancy.
Publication/Presentation Date
1-1-2020
Abstract
Many neurologic diseases in women are influenced by the physiologic and hormonal changes of pregnancy, and pregnancy itself poses challenges in both treatment and evaluation of these conditions. Some diseases, such as epilepsy and multiple sclerosis, have a high enough prevalence in the young female population to support robust epidemiologic data while many other neurologic diseases, such as specific myopathies and muscular dystrophies, have a low prevalence, with data limited to case reports and small case series. This chapter features epidemiologic information regarding a breadth of neurologic conditions, including stroke, epilepsy, demyelinating disease, peripheral neuropathies, migraine, sleep-disordered breathing, and meningioma, in women in the preconception, pregnancy, and postpartum stages.
Volume
171
First Page
119
Last Page
141
ISSN
0072-9752
Published In/Presented At
Barghouthi, T., Lemley, R., Figurelle, M., & Bushnell, C. (2020). Epidemiology of neurologic disease in pregnancy. Handbook of clinical neurology, 171, 119–141. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-444-64239-4.00006-0
Disciplines
Medicine and Health Sciences
PubMedID
32736746
Department(s)
Department of Medicine
Document Type
Article