Miksoma jantung merupakan tumor primer jinak yang paling umum. Meskipun secara histologis bersifat jinak, namun dapat berpotensi terjadinya emboli sistemik dan serebral, bahkan menyebabkan kematian mendadak. Karena kasus miksoma langka jarang dikenali, diagnosis awalnya sering keliru.
 Cardiac myxoma is the most common benign primary cardiac tumor. Although myxomas are histologically benig...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Treatment of patients with ischemic stroke after endovascular treatment requires in-depth knowledge of complications. The goal of this study was to make endovascular treatment for acute ischemic stroke safer through an in-depth review of the major periprocedural complications observed in the Solitaire FR With Intention for Thrombectomy (SWIFT) trial. MATERIALS AND METHO...

Letters to the Editor will be published, if suitable, as space permits. They should not exceed 1,000 words (typed double-spaced) in length and may be subject to editing or abridgment. To the Editor: The relationship between embolism and thrombosis as a cause of ischemic stroke is far from established. Not all ischemic strokes in patients with a cardiac source are caused by cardio-genic embolism...

Mural thrombus in the internal carotid artery is a source of emboli to the retinal and cerebral arteries, causing transient or permanent blindness and hemiplegia (Gunning et al., 1946b); thrombi in subclavian arteries damaged by cervical ribs form emboli which lodge in the digital arteries, inducing ischaemia of the fingers and thickened intima (Gunning et al., 1964a). Emboli from mural thrombi...

Background: The identification of gaseous emboli using Doppler ultrasound was described as early as the 1960s. Recently it has been demonstrated that this method can also detect solid emboli such as thrombi and platelet aggregates. This may make this technology useful in a large number of patients with, or at risk of, embolic stroke. Summary of Review: Emboli appear as short-duration, high-inte...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE The goal of this study was to assess the first multifrequency transcranial Doppler system specially developed for online automatic detection of cerebral microemboli. METHODS The multifrequency Doppler instrumentation insonates simultaneously with 2.0- and 2.5-MHz frequencies. The detection threshold for embolus detection used in this study was a relative Doppler energy ...

Should Lumbar Puncture Be Part of the Routine Evaluation of Patients with Cerebral Ischemia? To the Editor: 1 read with interest the recommendations of the Cerebral Embolism Study Group on the treatment of stroke due to cardiac emboli (Stroke 15:779-789. 1984). The authors state that they do not routinely recommend cerebrospinal examination prior to anticoagulation. I disagree. Failure to perfo...

Background: The identification of gaseous emboli using Doppler ultrasound was described as early as the 1960s. Recently it has been demonstrated that this method can also detect solid emboli such as thrombi and platelet aggregates. This may make this technology useful in a large number of patients with, or at risk of, embolic stroke. Summary of Review: Emboli appear as short-duration, high-inte...