Vertebral Artery Dissection: A Differential for Childhood Stroke.

IF 0.9 3区医学 Q4 NEUROSCIENCES

Neurology India Pub Date : 2025-05-01 Epub Date: 2025-05-23 DOI:10.4103/neuroindia.NI_702_20

Sahana Devadas, Niharika Shetty, K Mallesh

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Abstract

Vertebral artery dissection is one of the common causes of childhood stroke. It can be either spontaneous or traumatic. It commonly occurs after a strenuous exercise. Clinical examination will not provide any evidence of the condition as the condition may be asymptomatic or present with only mild symptoms. The gold standard for detection is angiography. The treatment involves antithrombotic medications. Here we present the case of a 16-year-old female child who presented with sudden onset of paralysis secondary to vertebrobasilar ischemic stroke due to arterial dissection.

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椎动脉夹层：儿童中风的鉴别诊断。

椎动脉夹层是儿童中风的常见原因之一。可能是自发的，也可能是创伤性的。它通常发生在剧烈运动之后。临床检查不会提供任何证据，因为病情可能无症状或只有轻微症状。检测的金标准是血管造影。治疗包括抗血栓药物。在这里，我们提出的情况下，16岁的女童谁提出了突发瘫痪继发椎基底动脉剥离缺血性脑卒中。

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Neurology India 医学-神经科学

CiteScore

1.60

自引率

70.40%

发文量

434

审稿时长

2 months

期刊介绍： Neurology India (ISSN 0028-3886) is Bi-monthly publication of Neurological Society of India. Neurology India, the show window of the progress of Neurological Sciences in India, has successfully completed 50 years of publication in the year 2002. ‘Neurology India’, along with the Neurological Society of India, has grown stronger with the passing of every year. The full articles of the journal are now available on internet with more than 20000 visitors in a month and the journal is indexed in MEDLINE and Index Medicus, Current Contents, Neuroscience Citation Index and EMBASE in addition to 10 other indexing avenues. This specialty journal reaches to about 2000 neurologists, neurosurgeons, neuro-psychiatrists, and others working in the fields of neurology.