Intracranial Tuberculoma Presenting as Atypical Eclampsia: A Case Report
Published: June 1, 2016 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.7860/JCDR/2016/.8053
Sendhil Coumary Arumugam, Sharmila Murugesan, Sunitha Pradeep, Lopamudra John, Vasavi Kolluru
1. Professor, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Mahatma Gandhi Medical College and RI, Pondicherry, India.
2. Assistant Professor, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Mahatma Gandhi Medical College and RI, Pondicherry, India.
3. Assistant Professor, Department of Radiology, JIPMER, Pondicherry, India.
4. Associate Professor, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Mahatma Gandhi Medical College and RI, Pondicherry, India.
5. Assistant Professor, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Mahatma Gandhi Medical College and RI, Pondicherry, India.
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Dr. Sendhil Coumary Arumugam,
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Occurrence of eclampsia before 20 weeks of pregnancy and after 48 hours of delivery in the absence of typical signs of hypertension and or proteinuria is termed as atypical eclampsia. Atypical or non-classic eclampsia will have some symptoms of eclampsia but without the usual proteinuria or hypertension. All patients with atypical onset should undergo neurological evaluation to rule out neurologic causes of seizures.Cerebral tuberculosis is a rare and serious form of disease secondary to haematogenous spread of Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Here we present a case of cerebral tuberculoma with seizures in late pregnancy mimicking eclampsia.
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