Atrial fibrillation after acute stroke.

F Vingerhoets, J Bogousslavsky, F Regli, G Van Melle - Stroke, 1993 - Am Heart Assoc
… by the stroke may explain the predominance of this lesion in … Moreover, a left central lesion
in the left middle cerebral … are more frequent with left-sided lesions.19'20'27 Our findings …

Atrial fibrillation and silent stroke: links, risks, and challenges

K Hahne, G Mönnig, A Samol - Vascular Health and Risk …, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
… Progress in imaging technology simplifies diagnostic procedures of these lesions and leads
to a large amount of diagnosed lesions, but there is still no final conclusion about frequency, …

Atrial fibrillation is associated with anterior predominant white matter lesions in patients presenting with embolic stroke

Y Mayasi, J Helenius, DD McManus… - Journal of Neurology …, 2018 - jnnp.bmj.com
… Using a previously established WMH lesion pattern system,18 we sought to determine …
non-AF embolic ischaemic stroke aetiology, independent of the overall WMH lesion burden or …

The epidemiology of atrial fibrillation and stroke

F Pistoia, S Sacco, C Tiseo, D Degan… - Cardiology …, 2016 - cardiology.theclinics.com
… The contribution of atrial fibrillation to the incidence and outcome of ischemic stroke is
huge, as shown by the fivefold increased risk of stroke in patients with the arrhythmia. …

Timing of anticoagulation therapy in patients with acute ischaemic stroke and atrial fibrillation

M Paciaroni, G Agnelli, W Ageno… - Thrombosis and …, 2016 - thieme-connect.com
… In patients with acute stroke and atrial fibrillation (AF), the risk of … the prevention of recurrent
ischaemic stroke in these patients, but … Old age, large lesion size and atrial enlargement were …

… lesions, cardiac troponin, and detection of previously unknown atrial fibrillation in acute ischemic stroke: insights from the troponin elevation in acute ischemic stroke …

JF Scheitz, H Erdur, KG Haeusler, HJ Audebert… - Stroke, 2015 - Am Heart Assoc
Atrial fibrillation (AF) increases the risk of ischemic stroke and is the presumed cause of
stroke … 3 Detection of AF after stroke has important therapeutic implications because tailored …

Infarct topography and detection of atrial fibrillation in cryptogenic stroke: results from CRYSTAL AF

RA Bernstein, V Di Lazzaro, MM Rymer… - Cerebrovascular …, 2015 - karger.com
… First, the definitions of stroke lesion type used by our core lab may have differed from the …
modality for detection of acute lesions, and therefore some acute lesions may have not been de…

Distribution of ischemic strokes in patients with atrial fibrillation: The FibStroke Study

J Jaakkola, P Hartikainen, TO Kiviniemi… - Neurology: Clinical …, 2019 - AAN Enterprises
Atrial fibrillation (AF) is an exceedingly common arrhythmia and an important causative factor
of ischemic stroke … In the current study, the distribution of ischemic lesions was described in …

Association between atrial fibrillation and silent cerebral infarctions: a systematic review and meta-analysis

S Kalantarian, H Ay, RL Gollub, H Lee… - Annals of internal …, 2014 - acpjournals.org
… All of the MRI studies that were included in this analysis defined SCI lesions as lesions
It is a well established fact that atrial fibrillation (AF) leads to increased risk of stroke but silent …

Non-rheumatic atrial fibrillation as a risk factor for stroke.

M Britton, C Gustafsson - Stroke, 1985 - Am Heart Assoc
… More severe lesions in embolic strokes have also been found at autopsy by Jorgensen
and Torvik.In some clinical materials where this problem was analyzed, AF was noted to be …