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Incontinentia Pigmenti

Study results from Wake Forest University, Department of Neurology in the area of incontinentia pigmenti in children published

Published in Telemedicine Business Week, May 20th, 2009

Scientists discuss in 'Recurrent stroke in a child with incontinentia pigmenti' new findings in incontinentia pigmenti. According to a study from the United States, "We report a child with genetically proven incontinentia pigmenti who had bilateral strokes at 5 days of age, and was subsequently found to have recurrent acute strokes on magnetic resonance imaging both at 10 days and 3 months of age. Brain magnetic resonance imaging at 5 days of age showed multiple areas of restricted diffusion throughout both hemispheres."

"The child was started on antiplatelet therapy after a second stroke was noted on magnetic resonance imaging at 10 days of age. Despite this treatment,...

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