The Egyptian Journal of Neurology, Psychiatry and Neurosurgery

Table 1 Demographic, vascular risk factors, and comparisons between pediatric ischemic and hemorrhagic strokes

From: Pediatric vs. adult stroke: comparative study in a tertiary referral hospital, Cairo, Egypt

Variables	Total cohort 52 Patients	Ischemic stroke 33 Patients	Hemorrhagic stroke 19 Patients	p value
Age median age, [age range]	6 years 3 months (2 months–18 years)	16 years (2 months–18 years)	7 years (3 months–18 years)	0.207
Sex
Boys Girls	31 (59.6%) 21 (40.3%)	16 (48.5%) 17 (51.5%)	15 (78.9%) 4 (21.1%)
Hypertension	1 (1.9%)	1 (3.0%)	0 (0.0%)	0.444
Cardiac diseases
Patent foramen ovale Atrial septum defect Ventricular septal defect Ebstein anomaly^a	5 (9.6%) 1 3 1 2	1 (3.0%) 3 (9.1%) 1 (3.0%) 2 (6.1%)	0 (0.0%) 0 (0.0%) 0 (0.0%) 0 (0.0%)	0.444 0.176 0.444 0.274
History of previous stroke	4 (7.6%)	3 (9.1%)	1 (5.3%)	0.618
History of DVT	1 (1.9%)	1 (3.0%)	0 (0.0%)	0.444
Vasculitis	2 (3.8%)	2 (6.1%)	0 (0.0%)	0.274
Infection^b	6 (11.5%)	5 (15.2%)	1 (5.3%)	0.282
Drug abuse	1 (1.9%)	0 (0.0%)	1 (5.3%)	0.183

By Mann Whitney test and Chi square test
^aThis boy had two cerebral strokes within four months; the first one was an arterial ischemic attack and the last one was cerebral venous thrombosis
^bCOVID-19 infection in three patients, Herpes encephalitis in one patient, acute mastoiditis in one patient, and tuberculous meningitis with ventriculitis in another

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