Pregnancy increases the risk of rupture of brain arteriovenous malformations

At the 22nd Annual Meeting of the Neuro -Interventional Surgery Society (SNI), the researchers presented findings on how pregnancy can make the risk of rupture of brain arteriovenous malformations, abnormal connections between arteries and veins whose rupture can cause serious brain lesions or death.

During pregnancy, hormonal changes and the greatest demand of the heart of pumping a greater volume of blood can place additional voltage both in the body and in the brain. Researchers at the Medical Center of the University of Mississippi in Jackson recently investigated if these physical changes can aggravate health problems for pregnant women with three brain conditions that are prone to rupture and causing serious brain lesions: arteriovenous malformations (abnormal tangles of blood vessels that interrupt the blood flow) Multical (weak abophyssas that can cause brain shoots) if they can cause a more ru -brain), and brain ills are interrupted), and intensify), and break), and are multicated brain), and rupees), and are ruptured), and are ruptured brains), and are ruled). (Blood vessels unusually that can cause brain bleeding if they break).

In the study, “the risk of rupture of intracranial vascular malformations during pregnancy: a systematic review and a meta -analysis,” the research team reviewed 5,609 magazine articles of multiple academic databases that discussed pregnant women with these conditions, choosing 15 to statistically analyze. Then they used articles to group patients in case they experienced a break. The scientists discovered that, although pregnancy did not seem to make a big difference in break -up rates for women with cerebral aneurys and cavernous malformations, pregnant women with arteriovenous malformations were much more likely to experience ruptures than women not pregnant with the same condition.

These findings show that we still have much to learn about how pregnancy affects the brain. We need more research on these effects and their possible causes for doctors to go more precision to how to treat pregnant women with these and other serious health conditions. ”

Evan Bowen, Medicine Student, Medical Center at the University of Mississippi