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VARGAS DIAZ, José et al. Risk factors of arterial ischemic strokes in children. Rev Cubana Pediatr [online]. 2008, vol.80, n.3, pp. 0-0. ISSN 1561-3119.

Ischemic stroke in children may occur in the arterial area, most of them in the carotid zone. The sinovenous obstructions, whose diagnosis requires proper rates of suspicion and imaging diagnostic techniques capable of detecting them are less common. There are many genetic and acquired risk factors related to ischemic stroke. Cardiac diseases, blood coagulation disorders, sickle cell anemia, infections, moyamoya syndrome, arterial dissection, and other rare genetic disorders, are among the most frequent documented risk factors. Sinovenous obstructions seem to be connected with head or neck infections, dehydratation, perinatal complications, and coagulation disorders. There is also the possibility that many of these factors act at the same time on the patient with stroke. The identification and possible control of the risk factors of children's strokes are the objectives of an intensive multicentric research to clear up the physiopathogeny and the real relationship causing them.

Palabras clave : Children's strokes; ischemic arterial infarction; risk factors; sinovenous thrombosis.

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