Table 3: Risk factors for stroke during pregnancy.

Predisposing of ischemic stroke

Predisposing of ischemic and hemorrhagic stroke

Amniotic fluid embolism

Chronic kidney disease

Antiphospholipid antibody syndrome

Reversible cerebral vasoconstriction syndrome

Atrial fibrillation

Hypertensive disorders of pregnancy

Cardioembolism

Migraine

Cervical artery dissection

Older

Choriocarcinoma

Peripartum infection

Congestive heart failure

Primary thrombocytopenia

Diabetes mellitus

Coagulopathy

Congenital heart disease

 

HELLP syndrome (hemolysis, elevated liver enzymes, and low platelet count)

Posterior Reversible Encephalopathy Syndrome (PRES)

Peripartum cardiomyopathy

 

Systemic lupus erythematosus