Perinatal Stroke

Introduction: Stroke is one of the major causes of death of adults in the developing world, and is also an important reason of mortality and chronic neurological morbidity in children. Strokes in children always happen in perinatal period. Therefore, we focus on this clinical issue related to perinatal stroke. The WHO (World Health Organization) definition of stroke is: “rapidly developing clinical signs of focal (or global) disturbance of cerebral function, with symptoms lasting 24 hours or longer or leading to death, with no apparent cause other than of vascular origin”. This definition emphasizes on the cause…