PREGNANCY AFTER PARALYSIS

2 June 1934

journal article
research article
Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in JAMA

Vol. 102 (22) , 1833-1835
https://doi.org/10.1001/jama.1934.02750220011004

Abstract

Paralysis occurring late in pregnancy is not infrequent, but a fairly comprehensive review of the current literature revealed the reports of only three cases. I have found no report of pregnancy occurring in a patient with paralysis of long standing. Pregnancy occurring after paraplegia is rare. Because of the infrequency of pregnancy in this type of patient, three cases are herewith reported. A case of spinal cord tumor simulating acute myelitis associated with optic neuritis and painless labor was reported by Dr. E. W. Taylor¹of Boston in 1906. This patient's symptoms occurred during pregnancy. She was delivered at term from below instrumentally because of weak uterine contractions. The delivery was painless and the convalescence normal, but death occurred a few months later. The case of a woman seven months pregnant, paralyzed by a bullet wound of the spinal cord at the level of the fourth dorsal vertebra, was reported

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