Cerebrovascular disease in pediatric patients
Although rare in childhood, stroke may have a serious impact when it happens in this stage of life. Also, it may be the first sign of a systemic disease. We report 12 cases of patients with stroke treated in the Neuropediatrics Unit of Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre (HCPA) from March 1997 to M...
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| author | Rotta Newra Tellechea Silva Alexandre Rodrigues da Silva Flora Luciana Figueira da Ohlweiler Lygia Belarmino Jr Eraldo Fonteles Valéria Raimundo Ranzan Josiane Rodriguez Orlando Javier Ramos Martins Régis Osório |
| author_facet | Rotta Newra Tellechea Silva Alexandre Rodrigues da Silva Flora Luciana Figueira da Ohlweiler Lygia Belarmino Jr Eraldo Fonteles Valéria Raimundo Ranzan Josiane Rodriguez Orlando Javier Ramos Martins Régis Osório |
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| description | Although rare in childhood, stroke may have a serious impact when it happens in this stage of life. Also, it may be the first sign of a systemic disease. We report 12 cases of patients with stroke treated in the Neuropediatrics Unit of Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre (HCPA) from March 1997 to March 2000. All patients, from term infants to 12-year-old children hospitalized in the Pediatrics Unit of HCPA, had clinical suspicion of stroke, which was later confirmed by radiological studies. Patient follow up ranged from 1 to 6 years (mean = 3.4 years). Presenting symptoms were hemiparesis in 9 patients, seizures in 7, deviation of labial commissure in 3, and loss of consciousness in 1. The increase in the number of cases of childhood stroke identified and later confirmed by noninvasive methods had helped in the determination of different ethiologies of stroke: the most frequent being hematologic, cardiac and genetic diseases. However, our study included 6 newborns with stroke whose ethiology was not identified. Seven children with seizures received phenobarbital. Six term infants had neonatal seizures secondary to stroke and restricted to the first 72 hours of life. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-335f3ed0a34a45fbb13dbec1fa2fc15f2025-08-20T03:55:15ZengThieme Revinter PublicaçõesArquivos de Neuro-Psiquiatria0004-282X1678-42272002-01-01604959963Cerebrovascular disease in pediatric patientsRotta Newra TellecheaSilva Alexandre Rodrigues daSilva Flora Luciana Figueira daOhlweiler LygiaBelarmino Jr EraldoFonteles Valéria RaimundoRanzan JosianeRodriguez Orlando Javier RamosMartins Régis OsórioAlthough rare in childhood, stroke may have a serious impact when it happens in this stage of life. Also, it may be the first sign of a systemic disease. We report 12 cases of patients with stroke treated in the Neuropediatrics Unit of Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre (HCPA) from March 1997 to March 2000. All patients, from term infants to 12-year-old children hospitalized in the Pediatrics Unit of HCPA, had clinical suspicion of stroke, which was later confirmed by radiological studies. Patient follow up ranged from 1 to 6 years (mean = 3.4 years). Presenting symptoms were hemiparesis in 9 patients, seizures in 7, deviation of labial commissure in 3, and loss of consciousness in 1. The increase in the number of cases of childhood stroke identified and later confirmed by noninvasive methods had helped in the determination of different ethiologies of stroke: the most frequent being hematologic, cardiac and genetic diseases. However, our study included 6 newborns with stroke whose ethiology was not identified. Seven children with seizures received phenobarbital. Six term infants had neonatal seizures secondary to stroke and restricted to the first 72 hours of life.http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0004-282X2002000600013cerebrovascular diseasestrokechildren |
| spellingShingle | Rotta Newra Tellechea Silva Alexandre Rodrigues da Silva Flora Luciana Figueira da Ohlweiler Lygia Belarmino Jr Eraldo Fonteles Valéria Raimundo Ranzan Josiane Rodriguez Orlando Javier Ramos Martins Régis Osório Cerebrovascular disease in pediatric patients Arquivos de Neuro-Psiquiatria cerebrovascular disease stroke children |
| title | Cerebrovascular disease in pediatric patients |
| title_full | Cerebrovascular disease in pediatric patients |
| title_fullStr | Cerebrovascular disease in pediatric patients |
| title_full_unstemmed | Cerebrovascular disease in pediatric patients |
| title_short | Cerebrovascular disease in pediatric patients |
| title_sort | cerebrovascular disease in pediatric patients |
| topic | cerebrovascular disease stroke children |
| url | http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0004-282X2002000600013 |
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