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BRIEF RESEARCH REPORT article
Front. Med.
Sec. Hematology
Volume 12 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fmed.2025.1530420
Mechanical thrombectomy in a child with antiphospholipid syndromea case report
Provisionally accepted
Justyna Kowalczewska *
Katarzyna Stanisławska Joanna Rybacka-Mossakowska Robert Juszkat 
Sławomir Michalak - Poznan University of Medical Sciences, Poznań, Poland
Stroke is one of the 10 most common causes of death in children. There has been a considerable rise in the number of strokes in pediatric population recently. Mechanical thrombectomy is a rarely used method of treating AIS (Acute Ischemic Stroke) in children. The presented case shows a 13-year-old female patient with a history of ischemic stroke three months earlier, obesity, hypertension and antiphospholipid syndrome (treated with rivaroxaban), who suffered another ischemic stroke and underwent mechanical thrombectomy with good clinical results. Additionally patient was diagnosed with antithrombin III deficiency. It is necessary to search for risk factors for AIS in pediatric population such as thrombophilias or autoimmune diseases, e.g. antiphospholipid syndrome and to develop guidelines for the use of thrombectomy in children because this method could reduce mortality, improve quality of life, prevent disability and reduce the cost of medical care in the future.
Keywords: Thrombectomy, Pediatric Stroke, Antiphospholipid Syndrome, Acute ischemic stroke, stroke center
Received: 16 Dec 2024; Accepted: 07 Mar 2025.
Copyright: © 2025 Kowalczewska, Stanisławska, Rybacka-Mossakowska, Juszkat and Michalak. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
* Correspondence:
Justyna Kowalczewska, Poznan University of Medical Sciences, Poznań, Poland
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