[Pregnancy and coma: more than one dilemma].
Ned Tijdschr Geneeskd
Medisch Centrum Haaglanden, Afd. Gynaecologie, Den Haag, the Netherlands.
Published: November 2010
A previously healthy 33-year-old woman presented at 13 weeks gestation in a comatose state after a new onset of seizures. Evaluation revealed an intraventricular haemorrhage from an arterioventricular malformation. Coma in pregnancy is a rare event. The moral, legal and medical aspects of prolongation of pregnancy, termination, withdrawal of medical treatment and organ donation are discussed.
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