Perinatal Cerebral Arterial Infarction Associated with a Placental Chorioangioma

ABSTRACT

Placental chorioangiomas are benign vascular tumors. Large chorioangiomas cause several obstetric complications, including premature labor, placental abruption, polyhydramnios, fetal hydrops,[1] fetal growth restriction,[2] fetal hepatosplenomegaly, cardiomegaly, congestive heart failure, and fetal death.[3] The neonatal complications are hydrops fetalis, microangiopathic hemolytic anemia, and thrombocytopenia. The cause of perinatal cerebral arterial infarction remains unclear in the majority of cases.[4] [5] Investigators have reported a number of obstetric and neonatal complications in the setting of perinatal stroke, including birth asphyxia,[3] preeclampsia, chorioamnionitis, cardiac anomalies, polycythemia, systemic infection, and genetic thrombophilias.[6] We present a rare case of perinatal cerebral infarction associated with placental chorioangioma.

KEYWORDS

Chorioangioma - cerebral artery - hemorrhage

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