Emergency Medicine: Open Access
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Mara Fracas

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• Case Report
  Headache after Delivery, a Misleading Presentation of Sheehan's Syndrome: A Case Report
  Author(s): Rosanna Varutti, Fabio Rosa, Tommaso Setti, Mara Fracas, Maria Maddalena Casarotto, Ygal Leykin and Flavio BassiRosanna Varutti, Fabio Rosa, Tommaso Setti, Mara Fracas, Maria Maddalena Casarotto, Ygal Leykin and Flavio Bassi
  
  Post dural puncture is one of the most common causes of postpartum headache. Other causes are benign primary headache disorders (migraine, tension-type headache) and secondary headache disorders such as stroke, ischaemia or pituitary apoplexy and venous sinus thrombosis. Headache in the new mother after delivery, mandates a differential diagnosis because it is not appropriate to focus only on the most common diseases, such as post dural puncture headache. In this report we discuss a case of postpartum headache with delayed cause diagnosis in complicated labour and delivery... View More»
  DOI: 10.4172/2165-7548.1000389

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