diagnosis<\/a> were evaluated by obstetricians and approximately one third by emergency medicine clinicians. This, to us, represents a knowledge gap across specialties and reveals an opportunity to expand clinician education to recognize early signs of maternal stroke.”<\/p>\n
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Eliza Miller, M.D., associate professor of\u00a0neurology\u00a0at Pitt\u00a0<\/p>\n
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The study investigators, who included experts in maternal fetal medicine, emergency medicine and stroke neurology, note that the creation of a multicenter patient registry for maternal stroke would make it easier to track risk factors and outcomes. This could ultimately lead to better decision support tools,\u00a0enhancing physicians’ ability to recognize stroke in this unique population and improving maternal health care outcomes.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“At UPMC and the University of Pittsburgh, we are building one of the nation’s strongest maternal stroke programs, uniting research, clinical care and education to set new standards for women’s brain health,” said Miller. “Our commitment to innovation and cross-disciplinary collaboration means that every mother receives the vigilance and expertise she deserves, and our initiatives are shaping a safer future for families everywhere.”\u00a0<\/p>\n
This project was supported in part by funding from the Helen Gurley Brown Foundation and the Gerstner Family Foundation.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Other authors of this research are Noora Haghighi, M.S., Raeann Bourscheid, M.D., and Catherine Shang, M.D., all of Columbia University; Elida Romo, Samantha Jankowski, Jane Holl, M.D., and Shyam Prabhakaran, M.D., all of the University of Chicago; Farhan Khan, M.D., of Brown University; Alison Seitz, M.D., of the University of Washington; Sara Shapouran, M.D., of the Montefiore Medical Center; Lauren Mamer, M.D., Ph.D., and William Meurer, M.D., of the University of Michigan; Ava Liberman, M.D., of Weill\u00a0Cornell Medical Center, and Andrea Shields, M.D., of the\u00a0University of Connecticut.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Source:<\/p>\n
Journal reference:<\/p>\n
Haghighi, N., et al. (2026). Identifying Missed Diagnostic Opportunities in Maternal Stroke.\u00a0Stroke. doi: 10.1161\/strokeaha.125.052995.\u00a0https:\/\/www.ahajournals.org\/doi\/10.1161\/STROKEAHA.125.052995<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"More than 25% of pregnant or postpartum women who suffered an acute stroke had encounters with health care…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15308,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[2285,84,16016,134,3186,527,18976,3193,10271,111,139,69,5994,1518,4371],"class_list":{"0":"post-253834","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health","8":"tag-diagnostic","9":"tag-education","10":"tag-emergency-medicine","11":"tag-health","12":"tag-health-care","13":"tag-healthcare","14":"tag-maternal-health","15":"tag-medicine","16":"tag-neurology","17":"tag-new-zealand","18":"tag-newzealand","19":"tag-nz","20":"tag-pregnancy","21":"tag-research","22":"tag-stroke"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=253834"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253834\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}