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Cryptogenic Stroke
Cryptogenic stroke (CS) is defined as the infarction of the brain that is not attributable to a source of definite cradioembolic (CE), large artery atherosclerosis (LAA), or small artery disease (SAD) despite extensive vascular, cardiac and serologic evaluation. The term Cryptogenic stroke (CS) was first used in the National Institute of Neurologic Disease and Stroke (NINDS) Data bank1. The TOA...
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Cryptogenic stroke (CS) is defined as cerebral ischemia of obscure or unknown origin. The cause of CS remains undetermined because the event is transitory or reversible, investigations did not look for all possible causes, or because some causes truly remain unknown. One third of the ischemic strokes is cryptogenic. CS is more frequent in younger than older patients and most frequently due to c...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Neurologia i Neurochirurgia Polska
سال: 2016
ISSN: 0028-3843
DOI: 10.1016/j.pjnns.2016.05.001