AROUND 300 CHILDREN SUFFER A STROKE A YEAR IN GERMANY
At the University Hospital of Muenster (UKM) is more than a decade, a study on "Stroke in children" performed.
Susan Riske was puzzled when her three year old daughter Pauline suddenly cried at night. "I've typed on a bladder infection," she explains. Your child could hardly calm down and was aggressive. Only after hours, she fell asleep again. In the morning, then the shock: Pauline could not move her left side. The very pregnant Susan Riske went to the hospital immediately. They told her that Pauline could have had a stroke. The subsequent MRI confirmed the suspicion.
"About 300 children a year suffer a stroke in Germany," says Dr. Ronald Sträter, child and youth health officer at the University Hospital of Muenster (UKM). Since 1996 he has worked under the direction of Professor Dr. Ulrike Nowak-Göttl on a long-term study of stroke in children and adolescents. Meanwhile, his habilitation Sträter and maintains this occasion his inaugural lecture tomorrow. Topic: "When children have a stroke."
About one-third of affected children contributes permanent damage such as paralysis or seizures of them after a stroke. "We now know that young children who have suffered a stroke, get, often including school problems," says Straeter. They have memory and concentration problems. Pauline has been lucky. Except for mild fine-motor disturbances in the left hand and left foot, she has fully recovered from her stroke. Nevertheless, she remains under observation.
Riske family has flown in from Munich to Munster, to be examined at UKM in the Special Office of the Children's Hospital. "Both in the clinic in Munich and in the support group for parents whose children have suffered a stroke, we were advised to go to Munster," says Father Andrew Riske. At UKM, the Germany-wide study is being coordinated and organized. "Unlike other clinics, we have additional opportunities to examine the children," says Straeter. Pauline, her six-month-old brother, Luis, and blood was taken from her parents: One of the possible causes of stroke are clotting disorders.
Although can be found in the blood of Riskes no genetic cause of Pauline's make stroke, the blood of family members is frozen. Thus, factors that are now being made are not responsible for stroke, in a few years then examined again.
Other causes of stroke in children include heart failure, vascular injury or vascular inflammation. The latter was one of the causes of stroke Pauline: She had five weeks before the attack of chickenpox. And have inflamed brain vessels.
Sense of the Germany-wide study is to accompany the children in the long term, in order to derive new insights. "One result is that we can prove that carry children at increased risk for another stroke," says Straeter. Among other things Sträter will report in his inaugural lecture.
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