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To diagnose a stroke in infants and children, the signs and symptoms above must first be recognized and the diagnosis considered. Brain pictures are then taken (see below) to confirm the presence and type of stroke. To find out what might have caused the stroke, health-care professionals including stroke team doctors and nurses
26 mar 2002 · Individuals with a PFO under these circumstances may be vulnerable to stroke from paradoxic embolism. “Economy class” stroke syndrome may be underdiagnosed and is an eminently preventable cause of stroke.
26 maj 2017 · The term ‘economy class syndrome’ refers to the occurrence of thrombotic events during long-haul flights that mainly occur in passengers in the economy class of the aircraft. This syndrome results from several factors related to the aircraft cabin (immobilization, hypobaric hypoxia and low humidity) and the passenger (body mass index ...
1 lip 2021 · Introduction. Pediatric stroke is a rare entity. It is often diagnosed with significant delay [ 1 ]. Consequently, pediatric stroke is often associated with substantial cost and long-term financial burden on families [ 2 ]. Acute neurological changes in the pediatric population have a wide differential diagnosis and various clinical presentations.
1 mar 2004 · Venous thromboembolism associated with travelling, or economy class syndrome, is increasingly recognised as a sequence of long haul flights and so paradoxical cerebral embolism through a patent foramen ovale. Materials and methods. We present a new case of economy class stroke syndrome and review of the literature using MEDLINE search. Results.
17 lip 2008 · The World Health Organization definition of stroke (a clinical syndrome of rapidly developing focal or global disturbance of brain function lasting >24 hours or leading to death with no obvious nonvascular cause) is far from ideal for children. Children with symptoms compatible with a transient ischemic attack (TIA), for example, commonly have ...
22 mar 2004 · “Economy class” stroke syndrome Christian Foerch , Kirn R. Kessler , Helmuth Steinmetz , and Matthias Sitzer Authors Info & Affiliations March 23, 2004 issue
