Atrial septal aneurysm and spontaneous echo contrast: an association with higher embolic risk?

Lone Atrial Septal Aneurysm With Spontaneous Echo Contrast: An Increased Stroke Risk

فراوانی آنومالی های سپتوم بین دهلیزی در بیماران با حوادث آمبولیک مغزی با علت ناشناخته با اکوکاردیوگرافی ترانس توراسیک و ترانس ازوفاژیال، بیمارستان امام تهران

Atrial septal anomalies suggested to play important role in enhancing tendency to induce cerebral embolic events. This study was undertaken to find the frequency of atrial septal anomalies including Patent Foramen Ovale, Atrial Septal Aneurysm and Atrial Septal Defect in patients with etiologically unknown stroke categorized as cryptogenic.Materials and Methods: 32 patients were studied by tran...

Atrial septal aneurysm: association with cerebrovascular and peripheral embolic events.

Patient records in 36 consecutively identified patients with typical echocardiographic findings of atrial septal aneurysm were reviewed. Ten of the 36 (28%) had cerebrovascular events. Of these 10, 5 had completed strokes of definite embolic origin on the basis of clinical, angiographic, and computed tomographic findings; 2 had transient ischemic attacks of probable embolic origin. One of the 3...

Transesophageal echocardiographic findings in stroke subtypes.

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Transesophageal echocardiography has a high yield for detecting potential cardiac sources of embolism in patients with clinical risk factors for cardioembolism or unexplained stroke. The yield in other stroke subtypes is unknown. METHODS We classified 145 consecutively admitted patients into stroke subtypes based on clinical findings, brain imaging, and carotid ultrasou...

Predictive factors of left atrial spontaneous echo contrast in patients with rheumatic mitral valve stenosis: a retrospective study of 159 patients

BACKGROUND Mitral valve stenosis is a common manifestation of chronic rheumatic heart disease. The presence of spontaneous echo contrast in the left atrium and left atrial appendage has been reported to be an independent predictor of thrombo-embolic risk in patients with mitral stenosis. The objective of this study was to retrospectively investigate various clinical and echocardiographic variab...