Ischemic Stroke

Risk Factors Identified in Children with Heart Disease

Published in Heart Disease Weekly, March 1st, 2000

Lipoprotein (a) levels >30 mg/dl, protein C deficiency, anticardiolipin antibodies, and combined prothrombotic disorders seem to be important risk factors for manifestation of ischemic strokes in children with underlying cardiac disorders, but FV G1691A and prothrombin G20210 A mutations are not, researchers say .

In one-fourth of cases of ischemic stroke, a rare event in childhood, an underlying cardiac disease can be detected. R. Strater and colleagues investigated the importance of genetic risk factors of venous thromboembolism in childhood or stroke in adulthood as risk factors for ischemic stroke in children in a multicenter survey focused on patients with a...

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