Thrombolytic stroke treatment of a 12-year-old girl with intracranial fibromuscular dysplasia.

Authors :: Bolognese M
Griebe M
Foerster A
Hennerici MG
Fatar M
Source :: Case reports in neurology [Case Rep Neurol] 2011 Sep; Vol. 3 (3), pp. 210-3. Date of Electronic Publication: 2011 Sep 09.
Publication Year :: 2011
Abstract: Fibromuscular dysplasia, predominantly found in adult women, is a rare disease of small and middle-sized arteries of the kidney and brain. We present a case of a 12-year-old girl with acute ischemic stroke, due to fibromuscular dysplasia of the distal internal carotid artery and the proximal middle cerebral artery, which was successfully treated with t-PA.

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