Embolic stroke of undetermined source (ESUS): predictors of atrial fibrillation

Evidence-based neurology checklist on embolic stroke of undetermined source (esus): predictors of atrial fibrillation: Echocardiographic predictors Left atrial enlargement High left atrial diameter Left ventricular hypertrophy Lower tissue Doppler velocity Septal total atrial conduction time…

Echocardiographic predictors

  • Left atrial enlargement
  • High left atrial diameter
  • Left ventricular hypertrophy
  • Lower tissue Doppler velocity
  • Septal total atrial conduction time (sPA-TDI)

Other predictors

References

  1. Kass-Hout O, Kass-Hout T, Parikh A, et al. Atrial fibrillation predictors on mobile cardiac telemetry in cryptogenic ischemic stroke. Neurohospitalist 2018; 8:7-11. 
  2. Ricci B, Chang AD, Hemendinger M, et al. A simple score that predicts paroxysmal atrial fibrillation on outpatient cardiac monitoring after embolic stroke of unknown source. J Stroke Cerebrovasc Dis 2018; 27:1692-1696.
  3. Sudacevschi V, Bertrand C, Chadenat ML, Tarnaud C, Pico F. Predictors of occult atrial fibrillation in one hundred seventy-one patients with cryptogenic transient ischemic attack and minor stroke. J Stroke Cerebrovasc Dis 2016; 25:2673-2677.
  4. Sieweke JT, Biber S, Weissenborn K, et al. Septal total atrial conduction time for prediction of atrial fibrillation in embolic stroke of unknown source: a pilot study. Clin Res Cardiol 2020; 109:205-214. 
  5. Hawkes MA, Farez MF, Pertierra L, Gomez-Schneider MM, Pastor-Rueda JM, Ameriso SF. Differential characteristics, stroke recurrence, and predictors of covert atrial fibrillation of embolic strokes of undetermined source. Int J Stroke 2018; 13:190-194.
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