Glossary for Hemiparesis in children

Medical terms related to Hemiparesis in children or mentioned in this section include:

• Brain abscess: abscess in the brain may involve any of the lobes of the brain
• Brushfield-Wyatt syndrome: A rare syndrome characterized mainly by mental deficiency, weakness on one side of the body and large port-wine stains that cover about a third of the skin's total surface. This condition may be a variant of another condition called Sturge-Weber syndrome.
• Cerebral Palsy: Any brain disorder causing movement disability
• Demyelinating disorder: Any condition that is characterised by the destruction of the myelin sheaths of the nerves
• Head injury: Any injury that occurs to the head
• Heart symptoms: Symptoms affecting the heart
• Hemiparesis: One-sided paralysis of the body
• Hemiplegia: Paralysis of one side of the body.
• Internal carotid agenesis: A very rare malformation where the carotid artery fails to develop. Other brain blood vessels enlarge to try to compensate for the defect and this leads to compression of parts of the brain which can cause neurological symptoms. The severity of symptoms is determined by how well the existing brain blood vessels are able to compensate for the absence of the carotid artery.
• Klippel Feil Syndrome: A rare congenital disorder characterized by abnormal fusion of two or more vertebrae in the neck. The disorder is often associated with other abnormalities but their incidence is highly variable.
• Meningitis: Infection of the membrane around the brain (as a symptom)
• Moyamoya Disease: Brain blood vessel disorder.
• Moyamoya disease: Brain blood vessel disorder.
• Nerve symptoms: Symptoms affecting the nerves
• Neurosyphilis: Syphilis affecting the nervous system.
• Peripheral neuropathy: Any loss in the function of the peripheral nervous system
• Stroke symptoms: Brain-related symptoms of bleeding or blockage.
• Sturge-Weber Syndrome: A rare genetic disorder characterized by excessive blood vessel growth, calcium accumulation inside the brain and seizures.
• Subarachnoid hemorrhage: subarachnoid hemorrhage is bleeding in the area between the brain and the thin tissues that cover the brain. This area is called the subarachnoid space
• Todd's Paralysis: Recurrent episodes of seizure and paralysis.
• Traumatic Brain Injury: Brain injury from trauma or accident.

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