NEUROLOGICAL DISORDER IN PREGNANCY

Abstract

Bell facial paralysis association with pregnancy pathology is quite rare in practice, but reported to the cases outside gestation it is 2 times more frequent, which was why we decided to present this case. In the presented case, we note that the neurological pathology was revealed in a patient, aged 34 years and located in 34 weeks gestation with pregnancy-induced hypertension which was presented accusing facial asymmetry insidiously installed. The treatment was agreed between the obstetrician and the neurologist. Birth was conducted in normal dynamic parameters, evolving naturally with a good fetal and maternal prognosis. Further development of the peripheral facial paralysis was slowly favorable, with a partial remission 3 weeks later. A year and a half after this episode that took place during the gestation, the neurological and clinical examination revealed the persistence of a discrete facial asymmetries.

Keywords

• idiopathic facial bell paralysis
• pregnancy-induced hypertension
• pregnancy
• eutocic labour