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YEAR: 1983

CATEGORY: Contraception (Birth Control) and Family Planning

TITLE

Oral contraception and cerebral thrombosis in a Jamaican.

AUTHORS

Campbell A; Grell GA

SOURCE

West Indian Medical Journal. 1983 Sep;32(3):191-3.

ABSTRACT

A case report of a 20-year old nulliparous woman who developed a stroke after taking the oral contraceptive (OC) pill

Niroday (norethindrone 1 mg and mestranol .05mg) for 2 years is presented. The patient was admitted to the

University Hospital in Jamaica after falling and losing power in the right arm and leg. She was a nonsmoker in good

general health and had never previously been hospitalized. She was conscious with mild dysphasia when examined

and complained of severe generalized headaches. There was grade 1 power in the right arm and leg, and an upper

motor neurone right facial palsy. The left plantar response was down-going and the right equivocal. Fundoscopy

was normal. Most clinical findings were normal, but a left Carotid angiogram showed complete occlusion of the

middle cerebral artery at its origin and later films showed a good collateral circulation from the anterior cerebral

vessels in particular. The patient was treated with a low dose aspirin and the OCs were discontinued.

Physiotherapy was instituted and continued on an outpatient basis on her discharge 3 weeks after admission with

grade 3 power in the right leg and grade 2 in the right arm. After careful exclusion of other known causes of stroke,

the evidence, supported by data from the literature, points to the contraceptive pill as the causative factor in the

development of the thrombotic stroke. The widespread use of OCs in the Caribbean should alert clinicians to the

possibility of future cases, and women at risk should use other forms of contraception. (PubHealth.info Document ID:

CONT5T 2061-06)

PubHealth.info NOTE: The author(s) of this article titled, "Oral contraception and cerebral thrombosis in a

Jamaican.", is(are) Campbell A; Grell GA. The source of this article is "West Indian Medical Journal. 1983

Sep;32(3):191-3.". This article was published in 1983 in English language(s). (PubHealth.info® Document ID:

CONT5T 2061-06. All rights reserved with PubHealth.info) PIN: 22061

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