Highlights the high mortality risk, particularly from cardiac diseases, in stroke patients with atrial fibrillation, emphasizing the need for careful cardiac evaluation.
Stroke patients with AF are at high risk of death both at the acute phase of stroke and during the subsequent year after the first acute stroke event. Mortality from cardiac diseases prevailed in the AF group during the acute phase of stroke. Careful cardiac evaluation and treatment are essential in patients with AF and stroke.
Kaarisalo et al. (Sat,) studied this question.
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