Cardiac Imaging Within Emergency CT Angiography for Acute Stroke Can Detect Atrial Clots

Cardiac embolism is presumed to cause a significant portion of cryptogenic strokes. Transesophageal echocardiography may detect intracardiac thrombi, but this remains a rare finding, possibly because remnant clots dissolve spontaneously or following thrombolysis. Cardiac imaging within cerebral CT a...

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Published in:	Frontiers in Neurology
Main Authors:	Stoyan Popkirov, Uwe Schlegel, Werner Weber, Ilka Kleffner, Jens Altenbernd
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Frontiers Media S.A. 2019-04-01
Subjects:	angiography cardioembolic thrombus ischemic stroke atrial fibrillation
Online Access:	https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fneur.2019.00349/full