Management of Pediatric Strokes With Alteplase (Tissue Plasminogen Activator)

In the pediatric population, ischemic stroke is rare. Pediatric patients with acute ischemic stroke are eligible for intravenous thrombolysis and/or mechanical thrombectomy. However, due to the rare occurrence of strokes and national shortage of pediatric neurologists, timely diagnosis and appropria...

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Autores principales: Filatov, Asia, Alvarez, Jaime, Seibert, Jessica, Swerdloff, Marc
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2021
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Neurology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8431982/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34527475
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.17088
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author Filatov, Asia
Alvarez, Jaime
Seibert, Jessica
Swerdloff, Marc
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description In the pediatric population, ischemic stroke is rare. Pediatric patients with acute ischemic stroke are eligible for intravenous thrombolysis and/or mechanical thrombectomy. However, due to the rare occurrence of strokes and national shortage of pediatric neurologists, timely diagnosis and appropriate treatment can be challenging. We report a case of a 16-year-old female who presented with an acute ischemic stroke to our adult comprehensive stroke program.
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spelling pubmed-84319822021-09-14 Management of Pediatric Strokes With Alteplase (Tissue Plasminogen Activator) Filatov, Asia Alvarez, Jaime Seibert, Jessica Swerdloff, Marc Cureus Neurology In the pediatric population, ischemic stroke is rare. Pediatric patients with acute ischemic stroke are eligible for intravenous thrombolysis and/or mechanical thrombectomy. However, due to the rare occurrence of strokes and national shortage of pediatric neurologists, timely diagnosis and appropriate treatment can be challenging. We report a case of a 16-year-old female who presented with an acute ischemic stroke to our adult comprehensive stroke program. Cureus 2021-08-11 /pmc/articles/PMC8431982/ /pubmed/34527475 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.17088 Text en Copyright © 2021, Filatov et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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title_short Management of Pediatric Strokes With Alteplase (Tissue Plasminogen Activator)
title_sort management of pediatric strokes with alteplase (tissue plasminogen activator)
topic Neurology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8431982/
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