Abstract Background Stroke is a major common cause of acquired disability and death worldwide. Atrial dysfunction or cardiomyopathy, defined by the presence specific serum biomarkers, ECG findings, echocardiographic increases risk atrial fibrillation, which has been implicated as key factor for ischaemic stroke. There now growing body evidence suggests that early positive troponin after stroke ...

Embolic strokes of undetermined source comprise a subset of cryptogenic ischemic strokes. It is thought that some embolic strokes of undetermined source could be due to left atrial thromboembolism without atrial fibrillation. The authors sought to determine whether a marker of left atrial pathological changes could pose as a surrogate marker of nonarrhythmogenic atrial thromboembolism in emboli...

Embolic strokes of undetermined source comprise a subset of cryptogenic ischemic strokes. It is thought that some embolic strokes of undetermined source could be due to left atrial thromboembolism without atrial fibrillation. The authors sought to determine whether a marker of left atrial pathological changes could pose as a surrogate marker of nonarrhythmogenic atrial thromboembolism in emboli...

Background: The identification of gaseous emboli using Doppler ultrasound was described as early as the 1960s. Recently it has been demonstrated that this method can also detect solid emboli such as thrombi and platelet aggregates. This may make this technology useful in a large number of patients with, or at risk of, embolic stroke. Summary of Review: Emboli appear as short-duration, high-inte...

Embolic strokes of undetermined source comprise a subset of cryptogenic ischemic strokes. It is thought that some embolic strokes of undetermined source could be due to left atrial thromboembolism without atrial fibrillation. The authors sought to determine whether a marker of left atrial pathological changes could pose as a surrogate marker of nonarrhythmogenic atrial thromboembolism in emboli...

Embolic strokes of undetermined source comprise a subset of cryptogenic ischemic strokes. It is thought that some embolic strokes of undetermined source could be due to left atrial thromboembolism without atrial fibrillation. The authors sought to determine whether a marker of left atrial pathological changes could pose as a surrogate marker of nonarrhythmogenic atrial thromboembolism in emboli...

BACKGROUND A number of clinical syndromes describing the presentation of deep brain infarcts are called lacunar syndromes resulting from small vessel occlusion (SVO). To verify the reliability of the clinical diagnosis "lacunar syndrome," the value was investigated with diffusion-weighted MRI (DWI). METHODS AND RESULTS A total of 73 patients (mean age 66 years; range 35 to 83 years) with sudd...

Background: The identification of gaseous emboli using Doppler ultrasound was described as early as the 1960s. Recently it has been demonstrated that this method can also detect solid emboli such as thrombi and platelet aggregates. This may make this technology useful in a large number of patients with, or at risk of, embolic stroke. Summary of Review: Emboli appear as short-duration, high-inte...

Background Cryptogenic embolic strokes of undetermined source (ESUS) are thought to comprise about 25% of all ischemic strokes. Late-Gadolinium MRI (LGE-MRI) allows detection and quantification of left atrial structural remodeling (LA-SRM). We sought to compare the degree of LA-SRM using LGE-MRI in patients with ESUS and in patients with embolic stroke of know origin, especially in those with a...

Over the past 25 years, our knowledge concerning embolic stroke, secondary to atrial fibrillation, has increased exponentially. Although it is well accepted that atrial fibrillation increases the risk of stroke in aggregate in a population ≈5-fold, several risk score models exist to further predict who will benefit from stroke prophylaxis with anticoagulants. The CHADS 2 risk score had been the...