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...
Childhood Ischemic Stroke
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...
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...
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...
Investigating Outcome Prediction and Rehabilitation from childhood stroke via the use of EEG brain connectivity assessments
| In Development | Observational | Single Site | Kartik Iyer, Michaela Waak & Karen Barlow | Predicting clinical recovery in childhood stroke is highly challenging due to the complex nature of injury. Outcomes in these children remain unclear until months after...
Vascular effects of Infection in Pediatric Stroke (VIPS)
| Enrolling | Observational | Multi-site | NIH | Heather Fullerton | VIPS II is an international multi-center NIH funded study that proposes to enroll 200 pediatric stroke cases and 200 pediatric stroke-free cases. Biological specimens, imaging, parent interviews and...