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There are few clinical guidelines for paediatric stroke. However, there are a number of reviews of paediatric stroke that may also help guide clinical management.
Guidelines
American Heart Association Stroke Council & the Council on Cardiovascular Disease in the Young: Management of Stroke in Infants and Children (2008).
A comprehensive guideline that encompasses ischaemic and haemorrhagic stroke.
Royal College of Physicians (UK) 2004. Stroke in Childhood. Clinical Guidelines.
A detailed guideline that considers the diagnosis, management and rehabilitation of arterial ishaemic stroke.
Monagle P, et al. Antithrombotic Therapy in Children: the Seventh ACCP conference on antithrombotic and thrombolytic therapy. Chest 2004;126:645S–687S
A guideline concerning many aspects of antithrombotic and thrombolytic therapy but with substantial sections referring to stroke.
deVeber G. In pursuit of evidence-based treatments for paediatric stroke: the UK and Chest guidelines. Lancet Neurology 2005;4:432-436
A review and comparison of the above two guidelines.
Review Articles
Bernard TJ, Goldenberg NA, Armstrong-Wells J, Amlie-Lefond C, Fullerton HJ. Treatment of childhood arterial ischemic stroke. Ann Neurol. 2008;63:679-96
Amlie-Lefond C, Sébire G, Fullerton HJ. Recent developments in childhood arterial ischaemic stroke. Lancet Neurol. 2008;7:425-35
Seidman C, Kirkham F, Pavlakis S. Pediatric stroke: current developments. Curr Opin Pediatr 2007;19:657-62
Jordan LC, Hillis AE. Hemorrhagic stroke in children. Pediatr Neurol 2007;36:73-80
Jordan LC. Stroke in childhood. The Neurologist 2006;12:94-102
Kirkham FJ, Sébire G, Steinlin M, Sträter R. Arterial ischaemic stroke in children. Review of the literature and strategies for future stroke studies. Thrombosis and haemostasis 2004;92:697-706
Lynch JK. Cerebrovascular disorders in children. Current neurology and neuroscience reports 2004;4:129-38
Kirkham FJ. Stroke and cerebrovascular disease in childhood. Curr Paediatrics 2003;13:350-359
deVeber G. Stroke and the child's brain: an overview of epidemiology, syndromes and risk factors. Curr Opin Neuro 2002;15:133-8.
Kirkham FJ. Stroke in childhood. Arch Dis Child 1999;81:85-89
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