THE RELEVANCE OF STROKE IN CHILDREN
In recent years, the world started to pay special attention to strokes in children. Stroke in children occurs less frequently than in adults and the elderly, but its effects are not less dangerous. Late-diagnosed hemorrhagic and ischemic strokes in children can cause disability and death, which makes the question of their detection at early stages is important for every parent. Most often stroke the child is in utero or the early neonatal period: 1 case per 4000 newborns. Increased risk are children under 3 years of age, who account for 38% of the total number of diagnosed strokes. Early diagnosis of stroke in children has its own peculiarities and presents a number of difficulties. The appearance of convulsions, the General predominance of cerebral symptoms in the acute period of the disease is often associated with that period, fever, which reduces the vigilance of the physicians of emergency service delays, and early brain imaging. All of the above necessitates the active study of the problem of stroke in children, teenagers and young adults, the establishment of the register, development of classification and clinical standards for the diagnosis and treatment of children with ischemic stroke in Russia.