A 28-year-old woman, nine days postpartum, was admitted to hospital after experiencing bilateral transient visual obscurations every few minutes. These visual disturbances were associated with blurring of vision and scintillating scotomata lasting 5-60 seconds followed by complete resolution of symptoms. She experienced hundreds of episodes per day and she had no other neurological symptoms. She had experienced a normal pregnancy with no obvious hypertension or signs of preeclampsia, and delivered a healthy male infant via an uncomplicated elective C-section for a breech presentation.
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