PREGNANCY AND PARKINSONISM
- 16 August 1930
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in JAMA
- Vol. 95 (7) , 473-476
- https://doi.org/10.1001/jama.1930.02720070011007
Abstract
Numerous papers have appeared dealing with acute encephalitis complicating pregnancy since von Economo1first reported a series of cases of epidemic encephalitis in 1918. The combination of pregnancy and chronic encephalitis (parkinsonism), however, has received comparatively little attention by writers on this subject. The present study of chronic encephalitis in pregnancy has been undertaken for this reason and in order to determine, if possible, the effect of chronic encephalitis on the gravid state and vice versa. It might be worth while to summarize the literature of acute encephalitis in pregnancy before proceeding with the discussion of chronic encephalitis or postencephalitis parkinsonism in the gravid woman. The suggestion that the pregnant individual is particularly susceptible to acute encephalitis has been advanced by students of small epidemics or of isolated cases, whereas those reporting large groups of patients observed no special predisposition associated with pregnancy. Sternberg2reports that, of fourteenKeywords
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