Stroke in children and young adults
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Brain ischaemia/infarction in children and young adults can result from several causes.
- embolic phenomena
- arterial dissection
- trauma
- spontaneous
- fibromuscular dysplasia
- Marfan syndrome
- Ehlers Danlos syndrome
- homocystinuria
- venous thrombosis
- pregnancy
- postpartum
- oral contraceptive pill use
- skull base/intracranial sepsis
- inflammatory bowel disease
- malignancy
- infection
- purulent meningitis
- hypoxia
- drugs
- cocaine
- amphetamines
- blood disorders
- sickle cell anaemia
- polycythaemia
- protein C deficiency
- protein S deficiency
- migraine (usually posterior circulation)
- postradiation vasculopathy
- vasculitides
- non-inflammatory angiopathies:
- CADASIL (cerebral autosomal dominant arteriopathy with subcortical infarcts and leukoencephalopathy)
- MELAS (mitochondrial encephalopathy, lactic acidosis and stroke-like episodes)
- Moyamoya disease/syndrome
- Divry van Bogaert syndrome
- Sneddon syndrome
- HANAC syndrome (hereditary angiopathy with nephropathy, aneurysms, and muscle cramps syndrome)
- HERNS syndrome (Hereditary endotheliopathy, retinopathy, nephropathy, and stroke)
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Morbus FabryFabry Disease
-<li>Morbus Fabry</li>- +<li> Fabry Disease</li>
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