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This website, KidsHaveStrokes.org,
provides specific information on stroke in utero, perinatal stroke,
prenatal stroke, infant stroke, and stroke in childhood. The
Children's Hemiplegia
and Stroke Association website provides information and support to
the families of pediatric stroke survivors. You'll find information on
therapy, dressing, school, and general support information needed by
parents who face the sometimes daily challenges of raising a child with
hemiplegia due to stroke.
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The Hemiplegia
due to Stroke Support Group,
Hemi-Kids, offers online support to families whose child has
been diagnosed hemiplegia due to a pediatric stroke.
2008
Infant
and Childhood Stroke Fact Sheet
This KidsHaveStrokes.org website is sponsored by the Children's
Hemiplegia and Stroke Association, CHASA
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Recent
Journal Abstracts Relating to Stroke in Infants or Children
Cortical
reorganization of language functioning following perinatal left MCA stroke,
Sept. 2008
Cerebral infarction in full-term newborns: MR imaging features,
Sept. 2008
Behavioral
Disorders and Psycho-Social Outcome After Stroke in Children. Sept.
2008
Plasticity in the developing brain: intellectual, language and academic functions in children with ischaemic perinatal stroke,
Aug. 2008
Ischemic
perinatal stroke: challenge and opportunities, Aug. 2008
Patterns of cerebral injury and neurodevelopmental outcomes after symptomatic neonatal hypoglycemia,
Aug 2008
Management
of Stroke in Infants and Children: A Scientific Statement
From a Special Writing Group of the American Heart Association Stroke Council and the Council on Cardiovascular Disease in the Young
Risk
factors for adverse outcome in preterm infants with periventricular
hemorrhagic infarction, June 2008
Perinatal
cerebral arterial infarction associated with a placental chorioangioma,
June 2008
Abstracts
from the International Stroke Conference
Poster
Session - International Stroke Conference
Ischemic
perinatal stroke: summary of a workshop sponsored by the National
Institute of Child Health and Human Development and the National Institute
of Neurological Disorders and Stroke
Sept. 2007, Maryland
Prothrombotic
risk factors in the evaluation and management of perinatal stroke
August 2007, Boston
Risk
factors for perinatal arterial stroke: a study of 60 mother-child pairs
August 2007, California
Risk
of recurrent childhood arterial ischemic stroke in a population-based
cohort: the importance of cerebrovascular imaging
March, 2007, San Francisco
Perinatal
ischemic stroke, Feb. 2007, NINDS,
Maryland
Modified
constraint-induced movement therapy after childhood stroke,
Jan. 2007, London
Thrombophilias,
perinatal stroke, and cerebral palsy
Dec. 2006, NINDS, Maryland
Diagnostic
pitfalls in pediatric ischemic stroke
Dec., 2006, the Netherlands
Quantified
Corticospinal Tract Diffusion Restriction Predicts Neonatal Stroke Outcome
Mode
of onset predicts etiological diagnosis of arterial ischemic stroke in
children
Cerebral
palsy secondary to perinatal ischemic stroke
Recognizing Strokes in Children video,
produced by the Keeping
Kids Healthy TV Show. Recognizing strokes right away – and knowing what to do about them – is crucial in limiting the damage they can do to the rest of a child’s life. Would you recognize the signs of a stroke in your child?
Watch the video.
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Infant Stroke Facts
Facts about Stroke in
Children
Diagnosing
Stroke in a Child
Diagnosing
Stroke in a Infant
Causes
(Risk Factors) of Stroke in an
Infant
Causes
(Risk Factors) of
Ischemic Stroke in a Child
Causes
(Risk Factors) of
Hemorrhagic Stroke in a Child
Join the Hemi-Kids
online support group where parents of children who have hemiplegia
or hemiplegic cerebral palsy, often the results of a pediatric stroke
share support and information.
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Research on Stroke in
Infants and Children
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Pediatric
Stroke Researchers
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Clinical
Trials and Studies of Pediatric Stroke
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The
Brain Imaging Center at Washington University, St. Louis - language and
perinatal stroke study
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University of
Chicago Childhood Stroke Study - unilateral stroke
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University of
Chicago Language Development Project - unilateral stroke
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Columbia
University Constraint-Induced Movement Study in Children with Cerebral
Palsy
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NINDS Study on
Quality of Life and Outcome of Stroke in Children
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University of
California Childhood Stroke Study, Psychiatric Aspects of Childhood
Stroke
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Guidelines
for Research Study Listing
Treatment
of disabilities resulting from infant or childhood stroke
- Therapists and Doctors
- Daily Living Skills
- Physical Therapy,
Occupational Therapy, Speech Therapy
- Special Education, IEPs, 504s
Support
Groups for Families of Pediatric Stroke Survivors
Infant
Stroke, Childhood Stroke, and Young Adult Stroke Awareness
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