Intracranial Tuberculoma Presenting as Atypical Eclampsia: A Case Report

oleh: Sendhil Coumary Arumugam, Sharmila Murugesan, Sunitha Pradeep, Lopamudra John, Vasavi Kolluru

Format: Article
Diterbitkan: JCDR Research and Publications Private Limited 2016-06-01

Deskripsi

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.