Shaista Tamizuddin, Mubashira Hashmi, Ismail A Khatri.
Fatal primary intraventricular hemorrhage in third 3rd trimester of pregnancy with rescue of baby.
Pak J Neurological Sci Jan ;5(1):18-20.

Primary intraventricular hemorrhage (PIVH) in adults is rare. A number of risk factors have been associated with PIVH, the commonest being hypertension, arterio-venous malformations, aneurysms, and coagulopathies. Although pregnancy is not one of the risk factors for PIVH but there have been a few cases of PIVH in pregnancy. Among the cases of PIVH reported so far, the outcomes have been variable including survival of both mother and baby, survival of mother with death of baby, or death of both mother and baby. We report an unusual case of fatal PIVH in pregnancy in which mother suffered cardiopulmonary arrest in emergency room, and the baby was rescued through an emergency cesarean section, when mother had no signs of brain stem function.

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