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Kelsey’s transformation: From stroke survivor to motivational speaker
“When I woke up after my stroke, all I wanted was to be normal again,” recalls Kelsey Tainsh. Normal — as in a healthy teen athlete who could brush her teeth and shower on her own, who wasn’t wheelchair-bound, who wasn’t compelled to hide her paralyzed right hand in her pocket everywhere she went, one who hadn’t lost all of her high school friends except for her two triplet sisters.
Now, this world-champion athlete not only learned to walk and talk again but also to embrace her differences. “Our hardest obstacles can be our biggest opportunities,” she says.
Kelsey’s first taste of being different came at ...
Source: Thrive, Children's Hospital Boston - March 16, 2016 Category: Pediatrics Authors: Lisa Fratt Tags: Our Patients’ Stories Brain tumor Mark Rockoff R. Michael Scott stroke Source Type: news
The Pediatric Stroke Code: Early Management of the Child with Stroke
Stroke in children is estimated to occur as frequently as brain tumors, and acute presentations should be considered a neurologic emergency. Although stroke is less common in children than in adults, the long-term morbidity and societal impact of stroke in children likely exceeds that in adults.1 Lessons from adult stroke trials underscore the need for early therapy to prevent complications and improve outcomes. In children, the prompt diagnosis of stroke is challenging, and a delay in diagnosis is a major impediment to initiating therapy.
Source: The Journal of Pediatrics - April 30, 2015 Category: Pediatrics Authors: Jorina Elbers, Mark S. Wainwright, Catherine Amlie-Lefond Tags: Medical Progress Source Type: research
Malignant Paraganglioma Presenting With Hemorrhagic Stroke in a Child
We report here the case of a 12-year-old boy with malignant sympathetic paraganglioma presenting with hemorrhagic stroke. Severe hypertension was found and the patient evolved into a coma. Brain computed tomography scan showed right thalamus hemorrhage with intraventricular extension. After clinical improvement, further investigation revealed elevated catecholamine and metanephrine levels, and 2 abdominal tumors were identified by computed tomography. Resection of both lesions was performed, and histologic findings were consistent with paraganglioma. Multiple metastatic involvement of bones and soft tissues appeared severa...
Source: PEDIATRICS - December 2, 2013 Category: Pediatrics Authors: Luiz, H. V., da Silva, T. N., Pereira, B. D., Santos, J. G., Goncalves, D., Manita, I., Portugal, J. Tags: Case Report 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
From Bermuda to Boston for surgery to protect the brain of a boy with sickle cell disease
Calvin Steede, who lives in Bermuda, will never forget the day in 2011 when he saw the movie “Winnie the Pooh” with his mother and sister. The film ended, and suddenly the boy who likes to draw and play soccer couldn’t put on his backpack. His arms had stopped working. He couldn’t stand, and soon he couldn’t talk.
Calvin, now 11, had suffered a minor stroke, a complication of sickle cell disease and the first step of a journey that would take him to Dana-Farber/Boston Children’s Cancer and Blood Disorders Center for minimally invasive surgery to protect his brain from future strokes.
Sickle cell disease
Sickle ...
Source: Thrive, Children's Hospital Boston - June 19, 2015 Category: Pediatrics Authors: Irene Sege Tags: Diseases & conditions Dana-Farber/Boston Children's Cancer and Blood Disorders Center moyamoya sickle cell disease Source Type: news
Fighting for Kennedy: Coping with moyamoya disease
If you happen to be waiting in line at the supermarket with Kennedy Grace Cheshire, you’ll likely leave the store with a whole new group of friends. This outgoing five-year-old can’t resist introducing herself to her fellow shoppers — and then introducing them to each other. “She’s never met a stranger,” says her mother, Amber.
Kennedy, who lives in Texas, brought that playful attitude to the East Coast last year when she and her family arrived at Boston Children’s Hospital for evaluation and treatment.
At age two, she had been diagnosed with neurofibromatosis 1 (NF1), a genetic condition that causes symptoms...
Source: Thrive, Children's Hospital Boston - March 21, 2017 Category: Pediatrics Authors: Jessica Cerretani Tags: Diseases & Conditions Our Patients’ Stories Dr. Edward Smith moyamoya Moyamoya Disease Program Source Type: news
After Moyamoya surgery, a back-to-normal birthday for Carolyn
Before Moyamoya surgery
Carolyn Milks turns 8 on August 21. It’s a big celebration. Carolyn and her family aren’t just celebrating her birthday — they’re celebrating Carolyn’s return to normal. For most of the summer, things like swimming, riding her bicycle and horsing around with her sisters and cousins had been out of the question for Carolyn.
But on August 11, Dr. Ed Smith, co-director of the Boston Children’s Hospital Cerebrovascular Surgery and Interventions Center, gave Carolyn the green light. She could go back to being a kid.
“This is what kids really want. They just want to ...
Source: Thrive, Children's Hospital Boston - August 18, 2016 Category: Pediatrics Authors: Joyce Choi Tags: Our Patients’ Stories Boston Children's at Waltham Cerebrovascular Surgery and Interventions Center Dr. Ed Smith moyamoya Source Type: news
What Types of Memory Impairments are There in Children?
Discussion
Memory is an important part of what distinguishes higher order species from others. Memory also is part of one’s self-identity. Difficulties in short-term memory can make common, everyday tasks difficult for the person experiencing the problem particularly if it recently occurred and the person’s long-term memory is intact. Difficulties with long-term memory can also have problems when language, events or even one’s own identity are affected. For some people the memory loss is temporary but for others, memory impairments are permanent and must be accepted and accommodated as part of the overall...
Source: PediatricEducation.org - March 30, 2020 Category: Pediatrics Authors: Pediatric Education Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: news
Amelioration of Brain Damage by Glycine in Neonatal Rat Brain Following Hypoxia −Ischemia
ConclusionGlycine protected neonatal rat brains against HI, in part by inhibiting TNFα‐induced inflammation and gliosis. Hence, systemic glycine infusions may have clinical utility for the treatment of HI injury in human newborns.This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.
Source: Pediatrics International - July 31, 2016 Category: Pediatrics Authors: Hiroko Mori, Ken Momosaki, Jun Kido, Tetsuo Naramura, Kenichi Tanaka, Shirou Matsumoto, Kimitoshi Nakamura, Hiroshi Mitsubuchi, Fumio Endo, Masanori Iwai Tags: Original Article Source Type: research
Amelioration by glycine of brain damage in neonatal rat brain following hypoxia –ischemia
ConclusionGlycine protected neonatal rat brains against HI, in part by inhibiting TNF‐α‐induced inflammation and gliosis. Hence, systemic glycine infusions may have clinical utility for the treatment of HI injury in human newborns.
Source: Pediatrics International - January 23, 2017 Category: Pediatrics Authors: Hiroko Mori, Ken Momosaki, Jun Kido, Tetsuo Naramura, Kenichi Tanaka, Shirou Matsumoto, Kimitoshi Nakamura, Hiroshi Mitsubuchi, Fumio Endo, Masanori Iwai Tags: Original Article Source Type: research
A father ’s hope for his son’s life
Juan and Fredy in 2017.
Juan was looking forward to having his son, Fredy, 14, finally come home to live with him. The teenager had been living under the care of his grandmother since he was a toddler.
But on that long-awaited homecoming day, Juan was quickly jarred from feeling great joy to grave concern.
“When I saw his face, one side looked very different from the other and his lip was swollen,” says Juan. “He admitted right away that his face had been hurting.”
Juan remembered that the last time he’d seen his son — more than one year ago — Fredy’s face had looked slightly different then too. But whateve...
Source: Thrive, Children's Hospital Boston - April 12, 2017 Category: Pediatrics Authors: Kat J. McAlpine Tags: Diseases & Conditions Our Patients’ Stories Dr. Cameron Trenor Dr. Carolyn Rogers Dr. Darren Orbach Dr. Reza Rahbar Dr. Salim Afshar interventional radiology juvenile nasopharyngeal angiofibroma tumor Source Type: news
Cardiac failure in a child with tuberculous meningitis as a complication of Paroxysmal sympathetic hyperactivity
CONCLUSIONS: PSH assessment tool has benefits such as monitoring the patient, evaluating response to treatment and early diagnosing PSH patients.PMID:35611428 | DOI:10.24953/turkjped.2020.3609
Source: The Turkish Journal of Pediatrics - May 25, 2022 Category: Pediatrics Authors: P ınar Yazıcı Özkaya E şe Eda Turanlı Hatice Feray Ar ı Serap Kurt B ülent Karapınar Source Type: research
