Endovascular Therapy in Pediatric Stroke: Utilization, Patient Characteristics, and Outcomes.

ABSTRACT:

Background and purpose

Despite strong evidence for endovascular therapy in adults with acute arterial ischemic stroke, limited data exist in children. We aimed to describe endovascular therapy utilization and explore outcomes in a national sample of pediatric arterial ischemic stroke.

Methods

We queried the 2012 Kids' Inpatient Database for children aged greater than 28 days to 20 years with the International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision, Clinical Modification (ICD-9-CM) codes for arterial ischemic stroke and evaluated groups based on the procedure code for endovascular therapy. Poor outcome was defined as need for tracheostomy or gastrostomy, discharge to rehabilitation facility, or death. Logistic regression evaluated the association between endovascular ther

SUBMITTER: Wilson JL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6394403 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature