Stroke in children differs from stroke in adults in many ways, with a high occurrence of
haemorrhage and a rarity of established atherosclerosis seen in children. A new set of …

Stroke is increasingly recognised as a cause of childhood disability and lifelong morbidity:
population-based estimates of the annual incidence of childhood stroke (ischaemic and …

Jose Pineda and colleagues should be commended for their study1 showing a decrease in
mortality rate in children with severe traumatic brain injury from 11% before implementation …

Studies of twins, and other family “structures”, show that stroke may be a complex disorder
that results from many interactions between genetic and environmental factors. The task of …

Paediatric neurology is sometimes regarded as a subspeciality that involves diagnosis of
rare disorders but specialists are rarely able to provide curative treatment. Neurological …

In The Lancet Neurology, the GBD 2019 Stroke Collaborators present data from the Global
Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study (GBD) 2019 that show that annual …

Stroke is at the interface between neurology and many other medical disciplines. 1
Paradoxically, there is currently a lack of public awareness of this disease because stroke is …

See Personal View page 429 After a diagnosis of stroke, one of the main purposes of further
investigation is to establish the probable underlying cause or causes and thus tailor …

According to WHO estimates, death from stroke in developing (low and middle-income)
countries in 2001 accounted for 85· 5% of stroke deaths worldwide, and the number of …

Background Arterial ischaemic stroke and cerebral sinovenous thrombosis are increasingly
seen in infants and children. Incidence ranges from two to six per 100 000 children a year …