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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 Sankhyan
Published 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.
Keyphrases
  • atrial fibrillation
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  • childhood cancer
  • young adults
  • middle cerebral artery
  • blood brain barrier