.... 56% of the patients had embolic stroke of undetermined source (ESUS). Specific electrocardiography abnormalities were associated with an increased risk of cardioembolic etiology (with three altered results increasing 81 fold the chance of the stroke being of cardioembolic nature). Age emerged...

.... Embolic stroke Cardiac biomarkers Patent foramen ovale  Diastolic dysfunction Cryptogenic stroke (CS) accounts for about 30–40% of all stroke subtypes [ 1, 2 ]. CS has been a major concern for stroke therapy and prevention [ 3 ] because CS still has the etiological diversity [ 4-6 ]. However...

... visually. [email protected] 22 04 2014 29 07 2014 13 11 2014 Embolic stroke Recombinant tissue plasminogen activator (rtPA) Thrombin activatable fibrinolysis inhibitor (TAFI) Combined therapy Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) Several randomized...

... diagnostic/therapeutic approaches concerned with this cerebrovascular disease. Our objective was to develop a novel and clinically relevant model of embolic stroke in the anesthetized monkey that incorporates readily available clinical imaging techniques and that would allow the possibility of drug delivery...

... to in the content or advertisements. Acute cerebral infarction Embolic stroke Angiography Platelet function inhibitor Magnetic resonance imaging Despite the increasing importance of noninvasive cerebral vascular imaging by computed tomography and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), cerebral digital...

..., antiplatelet agents (e.g. aspirin, ticlopidine or clopidogrel) are commonly used. Ischemic stroke, diagnosis Embolic stroke Brain natriuretic peptide Biomarker The joint bivariate distributions of these 5 variables are shown in figure 3 . The 2 stroke subtypes were again clearly differentiated...

... responsibility for any injury to persons or property resulting from any ideas, methods, instructions or products referred to in the content or advertisements. Cardioembolism Embolic stroke Hemorrhagic transformation Progressive stroke Cardioembolic stroke (CES) is responsible for about 20...

...James M. MacKenzie Estimates of the frequency of different types of ischaemic stroke vary widely, particularly those said to be of embolic aetiology. This retrospective autopsy study of 100 acute ischaemic strokes was undertaken to clarify the incidence of cardio-embolic stroke. Criteria...

... and the editor(s) disclaim responsibility for any injury to persons or property resulting from any ideas, methods, instructions or products referred to in the content or advertisements. Atrial fibrillation Valvulopathy Ischemic heart disease Embolic stroke Anticoagulant and antiplatelet therapy...