Intracranial Arterial Aneurysm in a Three-Month-Old Infant

Intracranial hemorrhage in children and adolescents

“…Jones and Shearburn 1~ reported an aneurysm in a 4-week-old infant on the main stem of the artery. Vapalahti, et al, 39 discussed the successful treatment of a peripherally situated aneurysm in a 3-month-old infant.…”

Report of Joint Committee for Stroke Facilities-- IX. Strokes in Children (Part 1)

“…First, the frequency of CHD approximates 6/1,000 live births. 78 This may make CHD the most common of the already identified risk factors of stroke in children. Second, although evidence for the familial nature of CHD continues to be reported, 79 emphasis should be placed on the more readily modifiable risk factors of CHD.…”

“…70 Equally impressive, and possibly more frequent, are the carotid thromboses which follow trauma to the head and neck 77 or directly to the carotid walls from falls on a pencil or a stick held in the mouth. 78 Thrombus may form over intimal tears resulting from sudden stretching of the vessel over the transverse process of an underlying vertebra during abrupt hyperextension and lateral flexion of the neck to the opposite side. 79 Vascular disease in the child has been found in homocystinuria and in diabetes mellitus.…”

An Intracranial Aneurysm and Dural Arteriovenous Fistula in a Newborn

“…The incidence of pediatric intracerebral aneurysms is 0.17–4% of all cases [1,2,3,4,5,6]. Only 131 cases of cerebral aneurysms have been reported in infants younger than 12 months [3,5,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20]. Likewise, there are very few case series reporting dural arteriovenous fistulae (DAVF) in this population.…”