Pregnancy Related Stroke

Learning Target

 

Pregnancy-associated stroke is uncommon. But it is one of the common causes of stroke in developing countries. Stroke is a major contributor to the serious morbidity and mortality of pregnancy. The physiological, hormonally mediated changes in circulation, vascular tissue structure, and coagulability, and the pathological state of pre-eclampsia/eclampsia contribute to this increased risk of stroke. During pregnancy and for approximately 6 weeks after birth, all women are at increased risk of thromboembolic disease. This topic will be covered under the following sub-headings, and will include aetiology, diagnosis, treatment and prognosis, as well as topics such as pre-eclampsia/eclampsia, peripartum and postpartum haemorrhage.

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Pregnancy Related Stroke

Jeyaraj Durai Pandian   Michaelea Trapl

Jeyaraj Durai Pandian

Jeyaraj Durai Pandian, MBBS, MD, DM, FRACP

Dr. Pandian is a Professor of Neurology at Christian Medical College (CMC), Ludhiana, Punjab, India. He is also the Head of Research at the Betty Cowan Research and Innovation Centre in CMC Ludhiana. Dr. Pandian did his stroke fellowship at the Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital, Brisbane, Australia, and he is also a Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians.

Dr. Pandian is one of the elected board of directors to the World Stroke Organisation (WSO) from South East Asia. He is also on the working committees of the World Stroke Campaign and the World Stroke Academy of WSO. Dr. Pandian is Associate Editor of the Neurology India Journal, and he is also a member of the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Stroke.

Dr. Pandian has published widely on stroke thrombolysis and stroke infrastructure in developing countries. He is the Principal Investigator for many ongoing international acute stroke trials in his centre.

   Ka Sing Lawrence Wong

Professor Ka Sing Lawrence Wong, MBBS (UNSW), MHA (UNSW), MD (UNSW), FRCP (London), FHKCP, FHKAM (Medicine)

Professor Wong is Mok Hing Yiu Professor of Medicine and Chief, Division of Neurology, Chinese University of Hong Kong.

Professor Wong is currently Secretary of the World Stroke Organization as well as Associate Editor (Asia-Pacific) of the journal Stroke. He was the Chairman of the organizing committee of the 9th International Symposium on Thrombolysis and Acute Stroke Therapy in 2006. He was Co-Chair of the Scientific Committee of the World Stroke Congress in Seoul 2010 and a member of the Program Committee of the International Stroke Conference of the American Stroke Association (2007-2010).

His major research interests are various aspects of cerebrovascular disease, such as intracranial atherosclerosis, neurosonology, epidemiology, cerebral blood flow and clinical trials for the treatment and prevention of stroke in Asians. Professor Wong was the recipient of the 2001 Bruce S. Schoenberg International Award and Lecture in Neuroepidemiology, awarded by the American Academy of Neurology, and the Gold Medal and Certificate for delivering the 2nd Annual Chapter of Neurologist Lecture of the Singapore College of Physicians in 2005. Professor Wong co-ordinates many international clinical trials in Asia. He has published more than 250 peer-reviewed full articles in scientific journals, including the New England Journal of Medicine, Lancet Neurology, Annals of Neurology, Nature, Neurology, Stroke, etc.

 


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