An Unusual Cause of Cerebral Infarction in a Tanzanian School Child

Pediatric stroke is uncommon. A traumatic cause of pediatric ischemic stroke is even rarer. Ischemic stroke due to intraluminal thrombus can be acutely treated with thrombolysis but various factors in sub-Saharan Africa make this unfeasible. We present a case of an eight-year-old Tanzanian boy who s...

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Autores principales: Lodhia, Jay, Chipongo, Hilary, Sadiq, Adnan, Khelef, Khadija, Bosco, Kenan, Dekker, Marieke
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: SAGE Publications 2022
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9666708/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36407557
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2329048X221139411
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Sumario:Pediatric stroke is uncommon. A traumatic cause of pediatric ischemic stroke is even rarer. Ischemic stroke due to intraluminal thrombus can be acutely treated with thrombolysis but various factors in sub-Saharan Africa make this unfeasible. We present a case of an eight-year-old Tanzanian boy who sustained penetrating trauma to his palate developing an ischemic stroke of his right middle cerebral artery territory.

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