Table 1.

Key treatment points for stroke in pregnancy and puerperium.

Pregnancy-Associated Disease	T reatment
Gestational Hypertension	Blood pressure control to <140/85 mmHg, preferably with oral or intravenous labetalol, hydralazine, and nicardipine.
Preeclampsia/Eclampsia	Prevention of pre-term preeclampsia: aspirin 150 mg daily from weeks 11–14 to week 36 of gestation.
	Definitive treatment: delivery of the fetus and diseased placenta.
Arterial Ischemic Stroke	Intravenous tissue plasminogen activator should be considered within 4.5 hours after symptom onset.
	Mechanical thrombectomy should be offered to patients with large-vessel occlusion strokes.
Hemorrhagic Stroke	Treatment involves blood pressure control. Treatment of the underlying vascular lesion as appropriate.
Cerebral Venous Sinus Thrombosis	Treatment: unfractionated or low molecular weight heparin.