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...
Infection
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...
COVID-19 and pediatric stroke—is there a connection?
By Heather Fullerton.One of our earliest pediatric mechanical thrombectomy cases at UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital was during the 2003 SARS global outbreak. Some of you may remember how children suffered more severe respiratory illnesses with that other...
Vascular effects of Infection in Pediatric Stroke II (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...