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Review Article: Migraine and Pregnancy
Author(s) -
Uknis Audrey,
Silberstein Stephen D.
Publication year - 1991
Publication title -
headache: the journal of head and face pain
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.14
H-Index - 119
eISSN - 1526-4610
pISSN - 0017-8748
DOI - 10.1111/j.1526-4610.1991.hed3106372.x
Subject(s) - migraine , aura , pregnancy , medicine , blurred vision , migraine with aura , obstetrics , postpartum period , pediatrics , incidence (geometry) , psychiatry , genetics , biology , physics , optics
SYNOPSIS A 27‐year‐old woman with no family or personal history of migraine presented with headache associated with unilateral paresthesias and blurred vision. This was her first, and so far only, attack of migraine with aura and led to the diagnosis of her pregnancy and to this review. Migraine can begin for the first time with pregnancy, particularly in the first trimester. Cases of migraine with aura are the most commonly reported. Preexisting migraine usually improves with pregnancy, particularly if it was associated with menstrual migraine. Headache occurs frequently in the postpartum period, particularly in known migraineurs. Migraineurs have no increased risk of complications during pregnancy and their children have no increased incidence of birth defects.