Dr. Kambiz Eftekhari
Tehran University of Medical sciences, Tehran, Iran.
Title: The risk factors for stroke in children, ten years experience
Biography
Biography: Dr. Kambiz Eftekhari
Abstract
Stroke is one of the cerebrovascular diseases. Stroke is different in children and newborns than it is in adults. Causes of stroke are also different in children than they are in adults. Stroke is more common in boys than girls, even after controlling for differences in frequency of causes such as trauma. It is a heterogeneous disease and one of the leading causes of death in children. The incidence of pediatric stroke ranges from 1.2 to 13 cases per 100,000 children under 18 years of age. There are several types of stroke including: ischemic, hemorrhagic, or both. Ischemic stroke in children accounts for about half of all stroke cases. Many different risk factors have been reported for childhood stroke, which cardiac disease, hemorrhagic abnormality, vasculopathies, viral infections, and veno-arterial malformation are of more importance. These factors are different from adults that including hypertension, diabetes, and atherosclerosis. The aim of this study was to determine the most common risk factors for stroke in children.