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## Background: Cardiac disease is a common cause of ischemic stroke in children. limited information is available about its incidence and long-term outcome. ## Methods: We undertook a retrospective study of children (age 0-17 years) with cardioembolic arterial ischemic stroke, occurring between 1992 and december 2007. study subjects were observed at the winnipeg children's hospital and identified using multiple databases and disease code searches. ## Results: We identified 84 children with arterial ischemic stroke, 17 (20%) of which were cardioembolic stroke (15 non-neonates; 10 females; mean age 4.6 years). the crude annual incidence rate for cardioembolic stroke was estimated to be 0.39 and mortality rate of 0.046 per 100,000 person-years. stroke occurred commonly in children 2 pediatric stroke outcome measure score in 6 (35%), death in 2 (12%), and recurrent stroke in 2 (12%). factors associated with poor outcome included headache (p = 0.048), high pediatric national institutes of health stroke scale at presentation (r = 0.57; p = 0.05) and discharge (r = 0.58; p = 0.05), and high pediatric stroke outcome measure at discharge (r = 0.77; p = 0.0008). ## Conclusion: Our cohort pr

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Author

Markus T. Ziesmann; Monica Nash; Frances A. Booth; Mubeen F. Rafay

Publisher

Elsevier BV

Published

2014

Language

EN

Field

Medicine (Health Sciences)