Highlights•Stroke is an important cause of disability and death in children.•There are
geographic/ethnic differences in pediatric stroke burden, risk factors and resources.•Central …

Purpose. To develop an institutional pediatric stroke database at West Virginia University to
support the classification and description of clinical and radiographic characteristics of …

Objective: To describe the etiology of childhood arterial-ischemic stroke from a developing
country and assess short-term neurologic outcome. Methods: Prospective observational …

Background and purpose: Stroke has been increasingly recognized in children in recent
years, but diagnosis and management can be difficult because of the diversity of underlying …

Stroke in childhood is one of the most common causes of death or severe impairment
worldwide, with annual incidence estimated from 1, 3 to 13 cases/100.000 population. The …

Pediatric stroke is significantly less common than stroke in adults, but represents a major
challenge to public health authorities. The aim of this retrospective study was to identify the …

Childhood stroke is not as common as adult stroke, but it is underrecognized the world over.
Diagnosis is often delayed due to lack of awareness not only by the lay public but also by …

Background: The pattern of pediatric stroke displays ethnic and geographical variations.
There are few reports from black Sub-Saharan Africa, although relevant data are important …

Stroke is a heterogeneous disorder and an important cause of mortality and chronic
morbidity in children. Estimates of international incidence rates for childhood stroke have …

An accepted classification system exists for ischaemic stroke in adults; however, this system
is of limited use for categorizing strokes in children, as the aetiology of paediatric stroke is …