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Stroke in a Six Month Old Infant with Multiple Intracerebral Infarcts: A Case Report

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Case Report

Author Details : Muhammad Sule Baba*, Ma’aji Sadisu Mohammed , Sa’idu Sule Ahmed , Shamaki Amina Muhammad Bello , Usman Aminu Umar

Volume : 2, Issue : 4, Year : 2020

Article Page : 144-148

https://doi.org/10.18231/j.ijrimcr.2020.028

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Abstract

The World Health Organization (WHO) defines stroke as a clinical syndrome of rapidly developing focal or global disturbance of brain function lasting more than 24 hours or leading to death with no obvious nonvascular cause. This is a six month old infant that was referred for a contrast enhanced computed tomography (CECT) of the brain on account of occasional vomiting, lethargy, poor suckling, weakness, poor developmental milestones since birth. The CECT showed a J-shaped sella, gnatopathy, multiple non-enhancing cerebrospinal density spaces; chronic infarcts, prominence of the lateral ventricles, poor white-grey matter interphase and a cleft palate. The parents of the patient were advised to seek referral for a multidisciplinary form of clinical management in a tertiary institution for better quality of life of the patient. We report the radiographic features of stroke in the pediatric age group due to its rare nature.

Keywords: J-shaped sella, Cerebral infarcts, Seizures, Pediatric.

How to cite : Baba M S, Mohammed M S, Ahmed S S, Bello S A M, Umar U A, Stroke in a Six Month Old Infant with Multiple Intracerebral Infarcts: A Case Report. Int J Recent Innov Med Clin Res 2020;2(4):144-148

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