Etiologic Profile of Childhood Stroke from North India: Is It Different from Developed World?
Abhinandan SoodRenu SutharJitendra K SahuArun K BaranwalArushi Gahlot SainiLokesh SainiSameer VyasNiranjan KhandelwalNaveen SankhyanPublished in: Journal of child neurology (2021)
The risk factors for pediatric arterial-ischemic stroke are different from developed countries in our cohort. Infection-associated arteriopathies, mineralizing angiopathy, and moyamoya disease are the most common risk factors in our cohort. Two-thirds of pediatric stroke survivors have neurologic disability at short-term follow-up.