期刊名称：General Internal Medicine and Clinical Innovations
电子版ISSN：2397-5237
出版年度：2016
卷号：1
期号：1
页码：16-17
DOI：10.15761-GIMCI.1000105
语种：English
出版社：Open Access Text
摘要：Cardioembolic stroke is largely preventable, warranting efforts at primary prevention for major risk cardioembolic sources [1]. Ultrasound diagnostic techniques such as echocardiography have allowed clinicians to better characterize well-established sources of embolism and to discover other potential etiologies of cardioembolic stroke [2]. The more common high risk cardioembolic conditions are atrial fibrillation, recent myocardial infarction, mechanical prosthetic valve, dilated myocardiopathy, and mitral rheumatic stenosis. Cardiac emboli arising from the cardiac chambers are often large and hence especially likely to cause severe stroke, disability and death [3].
