Stroke Services

Yawkey Center for Outpatient Care, Suite 8B
Hematology
Phone: 617-726-2737 | Fax: 617-724-0702
Neonatal Neurology
Phone: 617-726-2730, 617-726-3877 | Fax: 617-724-7860
Neurology
Phone: 617-726-8459 | Fax: 617-726-5043
For Emergencies: 617-726-2066 (to reach the Pediatric Neurology Fellow on Call)

The Pediatric Stroke Service is a specialized team consisting of a stroke neurologist, a pediatric hematologist, pediatric neuroradiologists, pediatric intensivists, and a stroke nurse who provide continuity of care, following a patient from admission to the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit or Pediatric Intensive Care Unit to discharge. The Pediatric Stroke Service cares for premature infants, children, or adolescents who have had a stroke, whether ischemic or hemorrhagic. We have expertise in:

• Acute stroke management in older children and adolescents
• Strokes in neonates and infants
• Neurocritical Care
• Brain Imaging evaluation of stroke and cervico-cranial vascular disorders
• Consultations for arterial dissections, vasculitis, Moya-moya disease, coagulation and hematological disorders, congenital or genetic causes of stroke, cardiogenic sources of embolism, and acute intra-arterial thrombolysis management.
• Counseling families of children with thrombophilia or with a family history of stroke.

Our service currently evaluates twenty to thirty new children each year for acute or completed stroke, with the most frequent diagnoses being acute ischemic stroke and a vascular disorders masquerading as possible stroke. A very special role is the assessment and management of stroke risk in young children and adolescents whose parents and close relatives have suffered stroke(s) in young adulthood.

Members of the Pediatric Stroke Service are currently evaluating the role of plasma phase risk factors in pediatric stroke, including lipoprotein (a). We are also interested in the possible predictive role of circulating tissue factor-positive microparticles.

Our staff includes:

• Eric F. Grabowski, MD, ScD, Co-director
• Ferdinando S. Buonanno, MD, Co-director
• Christopher Ogilvy, MD
• William Butler, MD
• P. Ellen Grant, MD
• Robin M. Jones, MD
• Kalpathy S. Krishnamoorthy, MD
• Elizabeth Merrill Van Cott, MD

Please call 617-726-2737 for outpatient consultations or for further information; our fax number is 617-724-0702. For emergencies, call 617-726-2066 to reach the Pediatric Neurology Fellow on call.