Association of covert brain infarct phenotype with stroke recurrence in first-ever manifest ischemic stroke according to etiology.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Covert brain infarcts (CBI) are frequent incidental findings on MRI and associated with future stroke risk in patients without a history of clinically evident cerebrovascular events. However, the prognostic value of CBI in first-ever ischemic stroke patients is unclear and previous studies did not report on different etiological stroke subtypes. We aimed to test CBI phenotypes and their association with stroke recurrence in first-ever ischemic stroke patients according to stroke etiology.

Patients and methods

This study is a pooled data analysis of two prospectively collected cohorts of consecutive first-ever ischemic stroke patients admitted to the comprehensive stroke centers of Bern (Switzerland) and Graz (Austria). CBI phenotypes were identified on brain MRI

SUBMITTER: Meinel TR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11318415 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature