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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....
Introducing the International Challenging Pediatric Stroke Case Conference!
By Megan Barry and Mukta Sharma. Pediatric stroke management can be challenging due to the wide range of etiologies, rarity of stroke at a single institution and need for collaboration with many different disciplines to achieve the best outcome for a child. The...
The International Paediatric Stroke Study (IPSS): A highly successful study vehicle for paediatric stroke research on a global scale
By Nomazulu Dlamini and Alexandra Linds. The International Paediatric Stroke Study (IPSS) was established in 2003 through a visionary collaboration of 11 international colleagues with expertise in paediatric stroke. For over 15 years, the IPSS has served as the...
Teamwork in Pediatric Stroke
By Jenny Wilson and Peter Sporns. Many pediatric hospitals have developed systems to respond to an acute pediatric stroke. These systems involve collaboration between physicians, nurses, and other experts hospital-wide from a diverse set of backgrounds and training,...
Return to school during the COVID pandemic: Information for families with children affected by stroke
By Adam Kirton.As clinicians caring for children with stroke and cerebrovascular disease, most of us have been fielding questions from parents about whether they need to take special precautions to protect their children during the pandemic. There are no clear...
Back to school for physicians
By Bethany Johnson-Kerner. Parents, teachers and even some physicians are shocked when they learn that children can have strokes. Although rare, children who have had strokes may experience significant adverse outcomes, including impaired cognitive skills, diminished...
COVID-19 & pediatric stroke—French guidelines & IPSO COVID Watch
By Heather Fullerton. After our May 13th blog post about COVID-19 and pediatric stroke, French IPSO members, Dr. Manoëlle Kossorotoff and Dr. Stéphane Chabrier, kindly shared with us their pandemic guidance for children with cerebrovascular disease. Hôpital...
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