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1Repair Windows errors before they cause bigger problems2Fix the driver behind crashes, sound loss and screen glitches3Clear out junk files and repair common Windows errorsGal Gadot said she was diagnosed with a massive blood clot in her brain in February 2024, during her eighth month of pregnancy. In a statement reported by ABC News on December 30, 2024, she described weeks of severe headaches, an MRI that revealed the clot, emergency surgery and the birth of her daughter Ori during the crisis. Gadot said then that she was fully healed; that is a statement about her condition at that time, not a current health update.
What Gal Gadot said happened
Gadot disclosed the episode in a personal statement reported by ABC News on December 30, 2024. She said that in February 2024, while in her eighth month of pregnancy, she was diagnosed with a “massive blood clot in my brain.” According to her account, severe headaches had continued for weeks before an MRI revealed the clot. She said she went to hospital and underwent emergency surgery, and that her daughter Ori was born during the period of uncertainty.
ABC News reported that Gadot had announced Ori’s birth in March 2024. The details of the diagnosis, treatment and recovery here are Gadot’s account as reported by ABC News, not independently verified medical records.
What cerebral venous thrombosis is
The condition identified in the coverage is cerebral venous thrombosis (CVT): a blood clot in the brain’s venous system, specifically the cerebral veins, the dural venous sinuses, or both. The American Heart Association’s January 29, 2024 summary says CVT can cause headache, visual problems, seizures, encephalopathy or coma. Symptoms vary, and a headache by itself cannot establish that someone has CVT.
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Repair Windows errors before they cause bigger problemsFix Now →Fix the driver behind crashes, sound loss and screen glitchesFind Drivers →The AHA estimates CVT accounts for 0.5%–3% of strokes globally. That figure describes CVT’s share of strokes; it is not a rate for pregnant people or a measure of how likely an individual pregnancy is to involve CVT.
How CVT is diagnosed and treated
The AHA identifies CT and MRI as main brain-imaging modalities and says CT venography or MR venography are optimal tests to confirm CVT. Diagnosis and treatment depend on the person’s presentation and clinical assessment.
The AHA describes anticoagulation, beginning with heparin, as mainstream treatment. For selected severe cases, endovascular therapies or craniectomy may be considered. Those are general clinical options; Gadot’s account does not establish which specific treatment she received beyond her statement that she underwent emergency surgery.
Pregnancy and blood-clot risk
Pregnancy changes how blood clots, which helps limit blood loss during labor and delivery. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidance dated May 15, 2024 says pregnancy raises the general risk of blood clots fivefold and that elevated risk extends through childbirth and the three months after delivery. This is guidance about blood clots generally, including venous thromboembolism; it is not a CVT-specific incidence statistic.
The CDC advises people to discuss personal clotting risk factors with a healthcare provider. It notes that low-molecular-weight heparin may be prescribed in some high-risk cases, but whether prevention or treatment is appropriate is an individualized clinical decision.
Independent reader supportYour contribution helps us test, update, and keep practical guides available for everyone.What Gadot said about recovery
In the same December 2024 statement, Gadot wrote: “Today, I am fully healed and filled with gratitude for the life I’ve been given back.” This reports how she described her recovery then. The ABC News account does not establish a later medical update, so it should not be read as a statement about her health in 2026.
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