Prevalence of transthoracic echocardiographic abnormalities in patients with ischemic stroke, intracerebral hemorrhage, and subarachnoid hemorrhage
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Population
191 patients with a first episode of ischemic stroke, subarachnoid hemorrhage, or intracerebral hemorrhage…
Design
Cross-sectional
Follow-up
in-hospital
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Implication
May support echocardiography in unclear ischemic stroke etiology; leaves open prospective validation before practice change.
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Population
191 patients with a first episode of ischemic stroke (n=120), subarachnoid hemorrhage (n=30), or intracerebral hemorrhage (n=41) in sinus rhythm, hospitalized at a single center. Excluded: patients with chest pain or acute myocardial infarction.
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Intervention
Transthoracic 2-dimensional and Doppler echocardiography performed at the time stroke was diagnosed
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Outcome
Prevalence of transthoracic echocardiographic abnormalitiessurrogate
Transthoracic echocardiographic abnormalities are significantly more prevalent in patients with ischemic stroke than in those with subarachnoid or intracerebral hemorrhage, supporting the use of echocardiography when ischemic stroke etiology is unclear.
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Amin et al. (2010) studied this question.
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