2021 guideline for the prevention of stroke in patients with stroke and transient ischemic attack: a guideline from the American Heart Association/American Stroke …

DO Kleindorfer, A Towfighi, S Chaturvedi, KM Cockroft… - Stroke, 2021 - Am Heart Assoc
Dawn O. Kleindorfer, MD, FAHA, Chair; Amytis Towfighi, MD, FAHA, Vice Chair; Seemant
Chaturvedi, MD, FAHA; Kevin M. Cockroft, MD, MSc, FAHA; Jose Gutierrez, MD, MPH; …

Ischemic stroke

SK Feske - The American journal of medicine, 2021 - Elsevier
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Heterogeneity of treatment effects in an analysis of pooled individual patient data from randomized trials of device closure of patent foramen ovale after stroke

DM Kent, JL Saver, SE Kasner, J Nelson, JD Carroll… - Jama, 2021 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Patent foramen ovale (PFO)–associated strokes comprise approximately 10% of
ischemic strokes in adults aged 18 to 60 years. While device closure decreases stroke …

Overview of acute ischemic stroke evaluation and management

TF Hasan, H Hasan, RE Kelley - Biomedicines, 2021 - mdpi.com
Stroke is a major contributor to death and disability worldwide. Prior to modern therapy, post-
stroke mortality was approximately 10% in the acute period, with nearly one-half of the …

Lacunar stroke: mechanisms and therapeutic implications

S Yaghi, E Raz, D Yang, S Cutting… - Journal of Neurology …, 2021 - jnnp.bmj.com
Lacunar stroke is a marker of cerebral small vessel disease and accounts for up to 25% of
ischaemic stroke. In this narrative review, we provide an overview of potential lacunar stroke …

[HTML][HTML] Embolic stroke of undetermined source and patent foramen ovale

D Strambo, G Sirimarco, S Nannoni, K Perlepe… - Stroke, 2021 - journals.lww.com
Background and Purpose: The Risk of Paradoxical Embolism (RoPE) score stratifies
patients with stroke according to the probability of having a patent foramen ovale (PFO) …

Uncertainties and controversies in the management of ischemic stroke and transient ischemic attack patients with patent foramen ovale

SE Kasner, S Lattanzi, AC Fonseca, AY Elgendy - Stroke, 2021 - Am Heart Assoc
Multiple randomized clinical trials have demonstrated the benefit of patent foramen ovale
closure over medical therapy alone for patients who have had a stroke that has been …

Patent foramen ovale channel morphometric characteristics associated with cryptogenic stroke: the MorPFO score

MK Hołda, A Krawczyk-Ożóg, M Koziej… - Journal of the American …, 2021 - Elsevier
Background It is still disputable whether the specific morphologic properties of patent
foramen ovale (PFO) may contribute to the occurrence of stroke. The aim of this study was to …

Stroke prevention after cryptogenic stroke

C Ibeh, MSV Elkind - Current Cardiology Reports, 2021 - Springer
Abstract Purpose of Review Cryptogenic stroke represents a heterogenous but clinically
important collection of stroke etiologies for which our understanding continues to grow …

Heart–Brain Relationship in Stroke

RE Kelley, BP Kelley - Biomedicines, 2021 - mdpi.com
The patient presenting with stroke often has cardiac-related risk factors which may be
involved in the mechanism of the stroke. The diagnostic assessment is predicated on …