- Stroke is one of the cerebrovascular (brain blood vessel) disorders.
- A stroke occurs due to the interruption of blood supply to the brain and leads to brain injury. Blood supplies oxygen and other important substances to the vital organ of the body including the brain.
- So, whenever there is an interruption of blood supply (an ischemic type of stroke), brain cells will die permanently and results in weakness of one side of the limb, facial weakness, difficulty in maintaining balance, unclear speech, and sometimes altered sensorium and seizures.
- In a hemorrhagic stroke, a blood vessel in the brain breaks, flooding the brain with blood and damaging brain cells.
- Reasons for pediatric stroke are diverse compare to adults and common ones are brain infection, sickle cell disease, vasculitis, and post-traumatic brain vessel injury.
- The common complications are epilepsy, motor deficit, and development delay.
