NEUROLOGIC CONDITIONS OCCURRING AS COMPLICATIONS OF PREGNANCY

TABLE OF CONTENTS 

• Conditions Due to Drugs

  • Hemorrhagic Encephalopathy Due to Treatment with Arsphenamine in Pregnancy

  • Cerebral Damage Due to General Anesthesia

  • Intoxication Due to Sulfonamides

  • Damage to Nervous System Due to Spinal Anesthesia

  • Effects of Abortifacients

• Conditions Due to Vitamin Deficiency

  • Polyneuritis Associated with Pernicious Vomiting

  • Beriberi and Wernicke's Encephalopathy

• Conditions Due to Trauma

  • Maternal Lumbosacral Plexus Paralyses During Delivery

  • Pressure Paralysis of Peripheral Nerves from Injury Received During Anesthesia

  • Extrusion of Intervertebral Disks During Pregnancy or Delivery

• Neoplasms

  • Chorionic Carcinoma

  • Effect of Pregnancy on Neoplasms and Angiomas

• Conditions of Unknown Origin

  • Visual Field Defects Supposedly Due to Swelling of the Hypophysis During Pregnancy

  • Effect of Pregnancy on Epilepsy

  • Effect of Pregnancy on Multiple Sclerosis

  • Effect of Pregnancy on Myasthenia Gravis

  • So-Called Myelitis of Pregnancy

  • Psychoses Associated with Pregnancy

• Summary

CONDITIONS DUE TO DRUGS  HEMORRHAGIC ENCEPHALOPATHY DUE TO TREATMENT WITH ARSPHENAMINE IN PREGNANCYCole⁵¹ stated that young adults