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Local teenager Kasey Poe was enjoying his winter vacation, merely three days after Christmas when he fell to the floor laughing and couldn’t get back up. Unbeknownst to his family, he had just experienced a pediatric stroke.
15 year old Kasey Poe was enjoying his winter vacation, merely three days after Christmas when he fell to the floor laughing, and couldn’t get back up; unbeknownst to his family at the time, he had experienced a pediatric stroke.
A team of investigators from Massachusetts General Hospital, a founding member of Mass General Brigham and Mass General for Children has identified-; for the first time-; the mutation in a single non-coding gene of a young patient responsible for the extremely rare disease known as multisystemic smooth muscle dysfunction syndrome, which causes profound cerebrovascular, gastrointestinal and urologic impairment.
Students and staff at Wiscasset Elementary School held a read-a-thon fundraiser on Friday, Feb 17, which randomly was National Random Acts of Kindness Day, for pre-K teacher Samantha Crawford and her daughter Angelina Puiia, a past WES student...
Pediatric stroke can happen, and it needs immediate intervention. A mom whose child survived a pediatric stroke tells the story of her son and shares what signs to look out for to save their children's lives.