Diagnosis of atrial fibrillation after stroke and transient ischaemic attack: a systematic review and meta-analysis

LA Sposato, LE Cipriano, G Saposnik… - The Lancet …, 2015 - thelancet.com
Background Among patients with atrial fibrillation, the risk of stroke is highest for those with a
history of stroke; however, oral anticoagulants can lower the risk of recurrent stroke by two …

[HTML][HTML] Cardiovascular risk factors for acute stroke: Risk profiles in the different subtypes of ischemic stroke

A Arboix - World Journal of Clinical Cases: WJCC, 2015 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Timely diagnosis and control of cardiovascular risk factors is a priority objective for adequate
primary and secondary prevention of acute stroke. Hypertension, atrial fibrillation and …

心房颤动: 目前的认识和治疗建议-201

黄从新, 张澍, 黄德嘉, 曹克将, 陈柯萍… - 中国心脏起搏与心电 …, 2015 - cqvip.com
自2012 年中华医学会心电生理和起搏分会(ChinaSoci—etyofPacingandElectrophysiology,
CSPE) 发表《 心房颤动: 目前的认识和治疗建议-2012) 以来的三年间, 有关心房颤动(简称房颤) …

Mass screening for untreated atrial fibrillation: the STROKESTOP study

E Svennberg, J Engdahl, F Al-Khalili, L Friberg… - Circulation, 2015 - Am Heart Assoc
Background—The aims of the present study were to define the prevalence of untreated atrial
fibrillation (AF) in a systematic screening program using intermittent ECG recordings among …

Excessive atrial ectopy and short atrial runs increase the risk of stroke beyond incident atrial fibrillation

BS Larsen, P Kumarathurai, J Falkenberg… - Journal of the American …, 2015 - jacc.org
Background: Approximately 30% of ischemic strokes have an unknown cause. Increased
atrial ectopy (AE) increases the risk of atrial fibrillation (AF), but the risk of stroke in patients …

Atrial premature beats predict atrial fibrillation in cryptogenic stroke: results from the EMBRACE trial

DJ Gladstone, P Dorian, M Spring, V Panzov… - Stroke, 2015 - Am Heart Assoc
Background and Purpose—Many ischemic strokes or transient ischemic attacks are labeled
cryptogenic but may have undetected atrial fibrillation (AF). We sought to identify those most …

Atrial cardiopathy: a broadened concept of left atrial thromboembolism beyond atrial fibrillation

H Kamel, PM Okin, WT Longstreth Jr, MSV Elkind… - Future …, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
Atrial fibrillation (AF) has long been associated with a heightened risk of ischemic stroke and
systemic thromboembolism, but recent data require a re-evaluation of our understanding of …

Can a novel clinical risk score improve pneumonia prediction in acute stroke care? A UK multicenter cohort study

CJ Smith, BD Bray, A Hoffman, A Meisel… - Journal of the …, 2015 - Am Heart Assoc
Background Pneumonia frequently complicates stroke and has a major impact on outcome.
We derived and internally validated a simple clinical risk score for predicting stroke …

Low-complexity detection of atrial fibrillation in continuous long-term monitoring

A Petrėnas, V Marozas, L Sörnmo - Computers in biology and medicine, 2015 - Elsevier
This study describes an atrial fibrillation (AF) detector whose structure is well-adapted both
for detection of subclinical AF episodes and for implementation in a battery-powered device …

Hypoxia induces microglia autophagy and neural inflammation injury in focal cerebral ischemia model

Z Yang, L Zhong, S Zhong, R Xian, B Yuan - Experimental and molecular …, 2015 - Elsevier
Much evidence demonstrated that autophagy played an important role in neural
inflammation response after ischemia stroke. However, the specific effect of microglia …