Pediatric Thrombotic Disorders

Preface; Part I. Epidemiology, Etiology, Diagnosis, Treatment, Outcomes: 1. Extremity and caval deep venous thrombosis Madhvi Rajpurkar and Shoshana Revel-Vilk; 2. Pulmonary embolism Suzan Williams and Michael Wang; 3. Cerebral sinovenous thrombosis in children and neonates Mahendranath Moharir and Gili Kenet; 4. Gastrointestinal and visceral thromboembolism Courtney A. Lyle and Christoph Male; 5. Renal and adrenal vein thrombosis Robert Francis Sidonio, Jr and Leonardo R. Brandao; 6. Cancer and thrombosis Uma Athale; 7. Epidemiology, etiology and pathophysiology of infection-associated venous thromboembolism in children Anjali A. Sharathkumar, Neil A. Goldenberg and Anthony K. C. Chan; Part II. Special Considerations in Pediatric Patients: 8. Developmental hemostasis I Paul Monagle; 9. Developmental hemostasis II Marilyn J. Manco-Johnson; 10. Pediatric thrombophilia evaluation: considerations for primary and secondary venous thromboembolism prevention Ulrike Nowak-Göttl, Gili Kenet and Neil A. Goldenberg; 11. Role of global assays in thrombosis and thrombophilia Meera Chitlur and Mindy Simpson; 12. Heparin-induced thrombocytopenia and thrombosis syndrome in children Courtney D. Thornburg; 13. Severe thrombophilias Cameron C. Trenor, III and Marilyn J. Manco-Johnson; 14. Thrombolysis Donald L. Yee, Catherine M. Amlie-Lefond and Peter H. Lin; 15. New anticoagulants in children: a review of recent studies and a look to the future G. Young and Neil A. Goldenberg; 16. Prevention of VTE in children Brian R. Branchford and Leslie Raffini; 17. Arterial ischemic stroke in children Timothy J. Bernard and Ulrike Nowak-Göttl; Index.