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Structural causes of ischemic and hemorrhagic stroke in children: moyamoya and arteriovenous malformations
Purpose of review: Moyamoya and arteriovenous malformations represent, respectively, significant sources of ischemic and hemorrhagic stroke in children after the first year of life. Although rarely encountered in routine pediatric practice, the potential severe morbidity of these entities, coupled with the typical acuity of their presentation, merit ongoing awareness of current relevant diagnostic and therapeutic strategies. Recent findings: Mutations in RNF213, ACTA2, and GUCY are implicated in moyamoya. Several common pediatric conditions – trisomy 21, sickle-cell disease, and neurofibromatosis type I – demonstrate a...
Source: Current Opinion in Pediatrics - November 10, 2015 Category: Pediatrics Tags: NEUROLOGY: Edited by Robert C. Tasker Source Type: research

Keeping up with Amanda: Life after brain surgery
In most ways, Amanda LePage is just like any other rambunctious fourth grader. She loves school, dance class, playing basketball and keeping up with her twin sister Macy and older brother Nathan. Sometimes it just takes her a little longer to do these everyday things. That’s because Amanda has been through a lot in her short nine years. Amanda was just 5 months old when she was brought by helicopter to Boston Children’s Hospital for a hemorrhage in her brain from an intracranial aneurysm, a type of vascular malformation. Despite long odds, Amanda survived two life-saving brain surgeries and a massive stroke that left ...
Source: Thrive, Children's Hospital Boston - May 22, 2017 Category: Pediatrics Authors: Ellen Greenlaw Tags: Our Patients’ Stories brain aneurysm Dr. Caroline Robson Dr. Craig McClain Dr. Edward Smith Dr. Peter Manley Hydrocephalus low-grade glioma pediatric stroke Source Type: news

Cockayne syndrome type: a very rare association with hemorrhagic stroke
CONCLUSIONS: Cockayne syndrome is rarely associated with stroke; we report the clinical and neuroradiologic findings of CS presenting with a hemorrhagic stroke.PMID:34738376 | DOI:10.24953/turkjped.2021.05.022
Source: The Turkish Journal of Pediatrics - November 5, 2021 Category: Pediatrics Authors: Ba şak Atalay Mine Sorkun Elif Y üksel Karatoprak Source Type: research

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