THE PERINATAL EMPHASIS OF SEGAWAS SYNDROME

Segawa's syndrome is a hereditary progessive dystonia with diurnal flu ctuation, which in contrast to other chronic dystonia in childhood res ponds dramatically to levodopa therapy. Very little is known on how it affects pregnancy or how it is affected by the pregnancy. We present a case of pregnancy of a patient, suffering from Segawa's syndrome. Th e patient received levodopa throughout entire two consecutive pregnanc ies and gave birth to two healthy male infants. The only perinatal pat hology was non-progressive labor. The safety of levodopa use in pregna ncy is also discussed.