Detection of Cardioembolic Sources With Nongated Cardiac Computed Tomography Angiography in Acute Stroke: Results From the ENCLOSE Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Identifying cardioembolic sources in patients with acute ischemic stroke is important for the choice of secondary prevention strategies. We prospectively investigated the yield of admission (spectral) nongated cardiac computed tomography angiography (CTA) to detect cardioembolic sources in stroke.

Methods

Participants of the ENCLOSE study (Improved Prediction of Recurrent Stroke and Detection of Small Volume Stroke) with transient ischemic attack or acute ischemic stroke with assessable nongated head-to-heart CTA at the University Medical Center Utrecht were included between June 2017 and March 2022. The presence of cardiac thrombus on cardiac CTA was based on a Likert scale and dichotomized into certainly or probably absent versus possibly, probably, or certainly

SUBMITTER: Kauw F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9951793 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature