When headaches in pregnancy mean life or death

19 Aug 2025 10:00am

Neurosurgeon Dr Moventhiran Ramakrishnan shares the life-and-death challenges of treating intracranial bleeding in pregnant women.

The first warning? headache - always a red flag in pregnancy.

Diagnosis isn’t simple: CT scans aren’t safe for the fetus, so doctors must rely on MRIs unless the situation is so critical that they have no choice but to proceed with CT to save the mother’s life.

In the most urgent cases, Dr Moventhiran recalls waiting for the baby’s first cry before beginning brain surgery - a race to save two lives in one operating room.

A gripping look at the split-second decisions that define neurosurgery in pregnancy.

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