Why the study?
AF detection and treatment are key to reducing recurrence risk in cryptogenic stroke with underlying arrhythmia, motivating the assessment of AF predictors and existing AF-predicting scores.
Do clinical risk scores predict underlying atrial fibrillation in patients with cryptogenic stroke monitored by an insertable cardiac monitor?
Population
Patients with CS and cryptogenic TIA monitored by ICM
Comparison
Utility of existing AF-predicting scores (AS5F, Brown ESUS-AF, CHA2DS2-VASc, CHASE-LESS, HATCH, HAVOC, STAF, SURF)
Design
International prospective observational multicenter study
Authors
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May support targeted monitoring in high-risk cryptogenic stroke; hypothesis-generating and requires prospective validation before practice change.
Do clinical risk scores predict underlying atrial fibrillation in patients with cryptogenic stroke monitored by an insertable cardiac monitor?
Clinical risk scores, particularly SURF and AS5F, can help identify cryptogenic stroke patients at higher risk of underlying atrial fibrillation to guide personalized prolonged rhythm monitoring.
Ratajczak‐Tretel et al. (2023) studied this question.
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