Carotid dissection causing stroke in a 13-year-old boy with mild hyperhomocysteinemia: case report

Lusawat, A.

Journal of the Medical Association of Thailand 94(5): 629-631

2011


ISSN/ISBN: 0125-2208
PMID: 21675455
Document Number: 11324
The author describes a 13-year-old Thai boy who developed stroke caused by carotid dissection and found mild elevation of plasma homocysteine (tHcy). The patient improved after anticoagulation therapy and his plasma tHcy decreased after vitamin supplement. With long-term follow-up, he is having normal neurological condition. This case proposes that the pathogenesis of carotid dissection may associate with mild hyperhomocysteinemia.

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Carotid dissection causing stroke in a 13-year-old boy with mild hyperhomocysteinemia: case report