Population
81 patients with acute cerebral infarcts caused by intracranial atherosclerotic disease without history of…
Design
Cross-sectional
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Supports systemic plaque vulnerability; leaves open whether coronary imaging aids intracranial stroke evaluation.
Plaque characteristics in coronary and intracranial arteries behave similarly, suggesting that vulnerable plaques in one arterial system may indicate vulnerability in others.
Chung et al. (2016) studied this question.
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