Box 1.

Risk factors for thromboembolic stroke during pregnancy.^1,2

Pregnancy-related

Caesarean delivery

Pregnancy-induced hypertension

Pre-eclampsia/eclampsia

Post-partum infection

Post-partum cerebral angiopathy

Gestational trophoblastic disease

Amniotic fluid embolism

Non-pregnancy-related

Hypertension

Smoking

Valvular heart disease

Dyslipidaemia

Thrombophilia

Sepsis

Migraine-with-aura

Paradoxical emboli

Illicit drug use

Sickle cell disease

Highlighted in bold are risk factors seen in the patient in this case.