Echocardiography in stroke and transient ischaemic attack.
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Correspondence to: Dr Chambers. How is cardiac stroke diagnosed? Approximately 20% of strokes are caused by cerebral haemorrhage and 80% by infarction.1 Of the infarctions, a proportion are thrombotic and the rest as a result of emboli either from artery to artery within the cerebral circulation or from the heart or aorta. The diagnosis of a cardiac source for emboli is based to some degree on the clinical presentation and the results of computed tomography or magnetic
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Heart
دوره 78 Suppl 1 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 1997