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I-ACQUIRE Trial Presentation During IPSO Meeting
By Warren Lo. On July 21st, 2021, at the IPSO Virtual Conference, I shared a brief presentation on the I-ACQUIRE Trial, funded by the National Institutes of Health in the US. This is a multi-site trial comparing 2 dosages of a form of intensive pediatric...
Reflections on the first IPSO Virtual Conference
By Grégoire Boulouis, Peter Sporns and Jenny Wilson. IPSO had its first conference July 19-21, 2021 after COVID-19 obliterated plans for an in-person conference in 2020 in Vienna, Austria. While there was a feeling of disappointment in not being able to meet in...
Predictive Value of Imaging Features in Pediatric Acute Ischemic Stroke
By Bin Jiang and Warren Lo. The rehabilitation center at Stanford Children’s Health is home to pediatric patients who have suffered a pediatric arterial ischemic stroke (AIS). Their prolonged rehabilitation process and their determined mindset has left deep...
International Alliance for Pediatric Stroke & Pediatric Stroke Resources
By Mary Kay Ballasiotes. At the International Alliance for Pediatric Stroke (IAPS), we know how important it is to have a support network for families to help them navigate life after a child’s stroke. There is nothing more reassuring than being able to turn to...
IPSO’s International Perspective
By Heather Fullerton. When we first conceived of IPSO a few years ago, one explicit goal was to obtain a global perspective on cerebrovascular disease in children. The factors that lead to pediatric stroke are heterogenous and complex, some poorly understood mix of...
Dysphagia, Motor Speech and Language Following Pediatric Ischemic Stroke
By Victoria Sherman and Mahendra Moharir. It was during my clinical work as a Speech-Language Pathologist (SLP) at an adult acute care hospital in Toronto where I initially realized the true prevalence of dysphagia following adult stroke and its impact on patient...
COVID-19 and Pediatric Stroke: What is the Connection?
By Lauren A. Beslow.In May 2020, the New England Journal of Medicine reported a series of 5 young adult patients who presented to the same hospital in a two-week period with larger artery strokes as a presenting feature of COVID-19. This high profile NEJM...
Arteritis and Large Vessel Occlusive Strokes in Children after COVID-19 Infection
By Brian Appavu and Todd Abruzzo. In the summer of 2020 the Phoenix Children’s Hospital pediatric stroke team encountered a previously healthy 8 year-old child with severe clinical stroke secondary to acute large vessel occlusion. The child, who had a history of...
American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine Annual Conference- An important educational and research platform for pediatric stroke rehabilitation.
By Todd Levy.The American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine (ACRM) is the largest organization for rehabilitation research in the United States and includes many nations. Its’ mission is to improve lives through interdisciplinary rehabilitation research. Its’...
Kids have strokes, too?
By Ratika Srivastava. I am a pediatric stroke fellow at the Alberta Children’s Hospital in Calgary, Canada. Whenever I tell people what I do, they invariably say, “OH! I didn’t know kids have strokes. That’s so sad.” And it is sad – but it is not without hope....
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