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Table 1 Summary of cases of isolated post-partum VAD

From: Postpartum vertebral artery dissection: case report and review of the literature

Author

Age

Presenting Symptoms

Risk Factors

Affected Vertebral Artery

Delivery

Time from Delivery (Days)

Current report

31

Frontal headache, vertigo, nausea, vomiting

Preeclampsia, smoking

Left

Cesarean

10

Shanmugalingam et al., 2016 [2]

30

Headache, ipsilateral neck pain

NSAID-induced postpartum HTN

Right

6

 

30

Ipsilateral neck pain

Prior IUGR and postpartum eclampsia

Left

6

Finley et al., 2015 [4]

35

Thunderclap headache

Migraine

Right

21

Nishimura et al., 2015 [8]

35

Thunderclap headache

Eclampsia, PRES

Right

8

Kelly et al., 2014 [9]

39

Thunderclap headache, ipsilateral neck pain, blurred vision

HTN, hyperlipidemia

Bilateral

Vaginal

21

Drazin et al., 2012 [10]

37

Thunderclap headache

Bilateral

3

Arnold et al., 2008 [3]

41

Bilateral neck pain

Migraine, hyperlipidemia

Left

Vaginal

18

 

27

Ipsilateral neck pain, thunderclap headache

Migraine, HTN, hyperlipidemia

Right

Vaginal

11

 

38

Thunderclap headache

Migraine, hyperlipidemia

Bilateral

Vaginal

7

 

34

Ipsilateral neck pain, headache

Chiropractor neck manipulation

Right

Vaginal

7

Gasecki et al., 1999 [11]

34

Headache, neck pain

 

Right

Vaginal

14

  1. Abbreviations: HTN Hypertension, IUGR Intrauterine growth restriction, NSAID Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug, PRES Posterior reversible encephalopathy syndrome